Handel's Orlando given a lively update

Von Simon Rees, 08 Oktober 2015

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, am 7 Oktober 2015

Händel, Orlando

Welsh National Opera

Rinaldo Alessandrini, Musikalische Leitung

Harry Fehr, Regie

Yannis Thavoris, Bühnenbild

Lawrence Zazzo, Orlando

Rebecca Evans, Angelica

Robin Blaze, Medoro

Fflur Wyn, Dorinda

Daniel Grice, Zoroastro

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Chorus

Helen Greenaway, Mezzosopran

Nicola Morgan, Mezzosopran

Sarah Pope, Mezzosopran

Jack O'Kelly, Bass

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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Daniel Grice Fflur Wyn Georg Friedrich Händel Harry Fehr Helen Greenaway Jack O'Kelly Lawrence Zazzo Orlando Rebecca Evans Rinaldo Alessandrini Robin Blaze Sarah Pope Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra Yannis Thavoris

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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.