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Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira staged at the Buxton Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 08 Juli 2018
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“a rousing account of Verdi's score... with the requisite punch”
Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Buxton Opera House, Buxton, am 7 Juli 2018
Programm
Verdi, Alzira
Darsteller
Buxton Festival Chorus
Stephen Barlow, Musikalische Leitung
Elijah Moshinsky, Regie
Russell Craig, Bühnenbild
Kate Ladner, Alzira
James Cleverton, Gusmano
Graeme Danby, Alvaro
Jung Soo Yun, Zamoro
Philip Wilcox, Ataliba
Helen Bailey, Zuma
Luke Sinclair, Otumbo
Brian McNamee, Ovando
Northern Chamber Orchestra
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After 45 years, Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet returns to Buxton in a gripping, psychological staging by Jack Furness. 
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Every July, Buxton’s charming opera house hosts an international festival of opera, literature and the arts. This year the festival opened with a strong familiar favourite, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.
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Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival
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Elijah Moshinsky’s 33-year-old production of Hansel and Gretel hasn’t aged well. 
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AlziraBuxton Festival ChorusElijah MoshinskyGiuseppe VerdiGraeme DanbyHelen BaileyJames ClevertonJung Soo YunKate LadnerLuke SinclairNorthern Chamber OrchestraPhilip WilcoxRussell CraigStephen Barlow
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.