Blue, Jeanine Tesori's new opera on urban violence, comes to ENO

Kenneth Kellogg (The Father) and Ronald Samm (The Reverend)

Nadine Benjamin (The Mother)

Zwakele Tshabalala (The Son) and Kenneth Kellogg (The Father)

Chanáe Curtis, Idunnu Münch, Nadine Benjamin and Sarah-Jane Lewis in a scene from Blue

Von Mark Valencia, 23 April 2023

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“Kenneth Kellogg and Nadine Benjamin as the tragic parents lead a cast of faultless quality and class”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 20 April 2023

Tesori, Blue

English National Opera

Matthew Kofi Waldren, Musikalische Leitung

Tinuke Craig, Regie

Alex Lowde, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

English National Opera Orchestra

English National Opera Chorus

Nadine Benjamin, The Mother

Kenneth Kellogg, The Father

Ronald Samm, The Reverend

Zwakele Tshabalala, The Son

Chanáe Curtis, Girlfriend 1, The Nurse

April Koyejo-Audiger, Girlfriend 2

Idunnu Münch, Girlfriend 3

John-Colyn Gyeantey, Policeman 1

Rheinaldt Tshepo Moagi, Policeman 2

Joshua Conyers, Policeman 3

Glass' Echnaton der ENO

David Karlin, 4th March

Phelim McDermott begibt sich in Philip Glass' Altes Ägypten: eine Produktion mit Starauftritt von Anthony Roth Costanzo, die zu sehen und zu hören absolut fesselnd ist.

*****

Stacheldraht und Haferschleim: ENOs Forza del destino

Mark Pullinger, 9th November

Calixto Bieitos neue Produktion von Verdis Die Macht des Schicksals für die Englische Nationalopar ist - für ihn - eine zahme Angelegenheit.

***11

Wagners Meistersinger in Topqualität

David Karlin, 7th February

Die ENO war in der letzten Woche aus den falschen Gründen in den Nachrichten und Richard Jones' Meistersinger von Nürnberg musste dringend eine großartie Produktion werden. Mit einer glänzenden Vorstellung von Iain Paterson ist sie das.

*****

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at ENO

Dominic Lowe, 6th February

English National Opera's revival of Phelim McDermott’s popular production is a blend of spectacle with some first-class singing, with Lucy Crowe emphasising her Mozartian credentials.

****1

Cocteau-esque camp: Alden’s Partenope returns to ENO

Mark Valencia, 20th November

Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning production of Handel’s Partenope returns to the Coliseum, but it's the singing that earns the plaudits.

****1

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.