Love, intrigue… and black paint-play: Luisa Miller at ENO

Von Mark Pullinger, 13 Februar 2020

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“David Junghoon Kim was an excellent Rodolfo, his big Italianate tone ringing around the Coliseum”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 12 Februar 2020

Verdi, Luisa Miller

English National Opera

Alexander Joel, Musikalische Leitung

Barbora Horáková, Regie

Andrew Lieberman, Bühnenbild

Eva Maria van Acker, Kostüme

Ólafur Sigurdarson, Miller

Elizabeth Llewellyn, Luisa

David Junghoon Kim, Rodolfo

James Creswell, Graf Walter

Christine Rice, Federica di Ostheim

Soloman Howard, Wurm

Nadine Benjamin, Laura

Michael Bauer, Licht

James Rosental, Choreographie

English National Opera Chorus

English National Opera Orchestra

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*****

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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

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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.

*****

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*****

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*****

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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

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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.