Second Elizabethan age receives a noble tribute in ENO's Gloriana

Paula Murrihy (Frances) and Christine Rice (Elizabeth I)

Christine Rice (Elizabeth I)

Robert Murray (Robert Devereux)

Von Roy Westbrook, 09 Dezember 2022

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“few productions can have had such strength in depth in the cast”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 8 Dezember 2022

Britten, Gloriana (Concert performance)

English National Opera

Martyn Brabbins, Musikalische Leitung

English National Opera Orchestra

English National Opera Chorus

Christine Rice, Elizabeth I

Robert Murray, Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Paula Murrihy, Frances, Countess of Essex

Duncan Rock, Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy

Sophie Bevan, Penelope, Lady Rich

Charles Rice, Sir Robert Cecil

David Soar, Sir Walter Raleigh

Alex Otterburn, Henry Cuffe

Alexandra Oomens, A Lady-in-Waiting

Claire Barnett-Jones, A Housewife

Innocent Masuku, The Spirit of the Masque

Sir Willard White, A blind ballad singer

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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

Weitere Kritiken...

Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

The second Elizabethan age receives a noble tribute from the first in ENO's Gloriana