Chic, bleak and provocative: WNO’s Manon Lescaut

Von Mark Pullinger, 20 März 2014

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“When Manon tells Des Grieux that she’s en route to a convent, it’s clearly laced with irony.”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, am 19 März 2014

Puccini, Manon Lescaut

Welsh National Opera

Lothar Koenigs, Musikalische Leitung

Mariusz Treliński, Regie

Boris Kudlička, Bühnenbild

Magdalena Musiał, Kostüme

Felice Ross, Licht

Bartek Macias, Video

Tomasz Wygoda, Choreographie

Chiara Taigi, Manon Lescaut

David Kempster, Lescaut

Gwyn Hughes Jones, Chevalier des Grieux

Stephen Richardson, Geronte di Ravoir

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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Bartek Macias Boris Kudlička David Kempster Felice Ross Giacomo Puccini Gwyn Hughes Jones Lothar Koenigs Magdalena Musiał Manon Lescaut Mariusz Treliński Stephen Richardson Tomasz Wygoda Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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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.