Welsh National Opera on tour: a musically powerful Madama Butterfly

Von Mark Valencia, 29 Oktober 2021

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“Joyce El-Khoury, an artist at the peak of her powers”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Bristol Hippodrome, Bristol, am 26 Oktober 2021

Puccini, Madama Butterfly

Welsh National Opera

Carlo Rizzi, Musikalische Leitung

Lindy Hume, Regie

Isabella Bywater, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Elanor Higgins, Licht

Joyce El-Khoury, Cio-Cio-San (Madama Butterfly)

Leonardo Caimi, Pinkerton

Mark Stone, Sharpless

Kezia Bienek, Suzuki

Keel Watson, Onkel Bonze

Neil Balfour, Fürst Yamadori

Tom Randle, Goro

Sian Meinir, Kate Pinkerton

Julian Boyce, Kaiserlicher Kommissar

Jack O'Kelly, Standesbeamter

George Newton-Fitzgerald, Yakuside

Monika Sawa, Cio-Cio-san's mother

Carolyn Jackson, The aunt

Meriel Andrew, The cousin

Welsh National Opera Chorus

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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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Alexia Voulgaridou Carlo Rizzi Carolyn Jackson George Newton-Fitzgerald Giacomo Puccini Isabella Bywater Jack O'Kelly Joyce El-Khoury Julian Boyce Keel Watson Kezia Bienek Leonardo Caimi Lindy Hume Madama Butterfly Mark Stone Meriel Andrew Monika Sawa Neil Balfour Peter Auty Sian Meinir Tom Randle Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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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.