Hot ice and strange snow

Von Mark Pullinger, 02 März 2018

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“Soraya Mafi’s diamantine coloratura sparkled as Tytania”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 1 März 2018

Britten, Ein Sommernachtstraum

English National Opera

Alexander Soddy, Musikalische Leitung

Robert Carsen, Regie

Michael Levine, Bühnenbild

Christopher Ainslie, Oberon

Soraya Mafi, Tytania

Miltos Yerolemou, Puck

David Webb, Lysander

Clare Presland, Hermia

Matthew Durkan, Demetrius

Eleanor Dennis, Helena

Joshua Bloom, Bottom

Graeme Danby, Quince

Robert Murray, Flute

Jonathan Lemalu, Snug

Timothy Robinson, Snout

Simon Butteriss, Starveling

Andri Björn Róbertsson, Theseus

Emma Carrington, Hippolyta

English National Opera Orchestra

Emmanuelle Bastet, Wiederaufnahmeleitung

Glass' Echnaton der ENO

David Karlin, 4th March

Phelim McDermott begibt sich in Philip Glass' Altes Ägypten: eine Produktion mit Starauftritt von Anthony Roth Costanzo, die zu sehen und zu hören absolut fesselnd ist.

*****

Stacheldraht und Haferschleim: ENOs Forza del destino

Mark Pullinger, 9th November

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

David Karlin, 7th February

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.

*****

Reality television: ENO’s Angel’s Bone in Manchester

Lawrence Dunn, 12th May

Kip Williams and ENO mount an extraordinary new production of Du Yun and Royce Vavrek’s multifaceted opera, with performances of great emotional directness broadcast live on camera.

*****

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at ENO

Dominic Lowe, 6th February

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.

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