Rossini's William Tell in fifty shades of grey

Von Simon Rees, 16 September 2014

Laden, bitte warten...

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“Barry Banks took them like... hurdles at a point-to-point, sailing over them with grace and style”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, am 12 September 2014

Rossini, Guillaume Tell

Welsh National Opera

Carlo Rizzi, Musikalische Leitung

Sir David Pountney, Regie

Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Kostüme

Raimund Bauer, Bühnenbild

David Kempster, Guillaume Tell

Fflur Wyn, Jemmy

Camilla Roberts, Mathilde

Leah-Marian Jones, Hedwige

Barry Banks, Arnold Melcthal

Nicky Spence, Rodolphe

Luciano Botelho, Ruodi

Richard Wiegold, Melcthal

Clive Bayley, Gesler

Aidan Smith, Leuthold

Pelléas et Mélisande

Simon Rees, 29th May

Mélisande als Lulu in David Pountneys unbefriedigender Inszenierung von Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande für die Welsh National Opera.

****1

A magnificent Tosca from Welsh National Opera at the Mayflower
David Truslove, 3rd October

WNO imports Edward Dick’s exceptionally fine production, which benefits from from superb casting and outstanding performances led by Natalya Romaniw.

*****

Bancroft and BBCNOW at the Proms: a deeply satisfying Mahler 3
David Karlin, 11th August

Bancroft and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales provide a Mahler 3 of exceptional clarity and forward momentum, with terrific posthorn solos from Corey Morris and Beth Taylor an outstanding soloist.

****1

A dark and disturbing Rigoletto from WNO at the Mayflower
David Truslove, 14th November

Fine performances in a punchy new production that coats this tragic opera in a large dollop of debauchery.

****1

WNO stages Death in Venice for the first time and it’s a triumph
Mark Valencia, 7th March

Olivia Fuchs solves the problems of Britten's thorny opera in a brilliant new production that hits the heights, featuring Mark Le Brocq as earthbound scholar, Gustav von Aschenbach.

*****

Musical performances keep WNO's new Così afloat
Mark Valencia, 6th March

Max Hoehn takes Così‘s subtitle, La scuola degli amanti (The School for Lovers), and connects it to Monty Python’s sex education sketch in The Meaning of Life. What larks, eh?

***11

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Aidan Smith Barry Banks Camilla Roberts Carlo Rizzi Clive Bayley David Kempster Fflur Wyn Gioachino Rossini Guillaume Tell Leah-Marian Jones Luciano Botelho Marie-Jeanne Lecca Nicky Spence Raimund Bauer Richard Wiegold Sir David Pountney Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.