Sensitive stagecraft and directorial rage: Suor Angelica at ENO

Sinéad Campbell-Wallace (Sister Angelica)

Christine Rice (The Baroness)

ENO's ensemble in Suor Angelica

Von Mark Valencia, 29 September 2024

Laden, bitte warten...

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“Miskimmon... challenged us to confront the truth even as we longed to look away”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The London Coliseum, London, am 27 September 2024

Puccini, Suor Angelica

English National Opera

Corinna Niemeyer, Musikalische Leitung

Annilese Miskimmon, Regie

English National Opera Orchestra

English National Opera Chorus

Sinéad Campbell Wallace, Suor Angelica

Christine Rice, La zia principessa

Madeleine Shaw, La badessa

Lea Shaw, La suora zelatrice

Gaynor Keeble, La maestra delle novizie

Alexandra Oomens, Suor Genovieffa

Sarah-Jane Lewis, Suor Dolcina

Jane Read, Suor Osmina

Tanya Hurst, Prima cercatrice

Susanna Tudor-Thomas, Una cercatrice 2

Claire Pendleton, Una conversa 1

Annabella Vesela Ellis, Una novizia

Sophie Goldrick, La suora infermiera

Morag Boyle, Una conversa 2

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*****

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***11

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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.

Sensitive stagecraft, directorial rage: Suor Angelica... for one night only at ENO