ETO's Radamisto: Uneven Handel in Hackney

Von Stephen Pritchard, 08 Oktober 2018

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“Katie Bray's... incisive singing, scything through the semi-quavers, lifted the whole show”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Hackney Empire, London, am 6 Oktober 2018

Händel, Radamisto, HWV 12a, b

English Touring Opera

Peter Whelan, Musikalische Leitung

James Conway, Regie

Adam Wiltshire, Bühnenbild

William Towers, Radamisto

Katie Bray, Zenobia

Grant Doyle, Tiridate

Ellie Laugharne, Polissena

Andrew Slater, Farasmane

John-Colyn Gyeantey, Tigrane

English Touring Opera Orchestra

Old Street Band

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.