Usher House double bill fails to stand up

Von Simon Rees, 20 Juni 2014

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Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, am 13 Juni 2014

Getty, Usher House (World première)

Debussy, La Chute de la Maison Usher (British première of completion by Robert Orledge)

Welsh National Opera

Lawrence Foster, Musikalische Leitung

Sir David Pountney, Regie

Niki Turner, Bühnenbild

Anna Gorbachyova, Madeline Usher, Lady Madeline

Jason Bridges, Edgar Allan Poe

Benjamin Bevan, Roderick Usher

Kevin Short, Doctor Primus

Mark Le Brocq, Le Médecin

William Dazeley, L’Ami

Robert Hayward, Roderick Usher

David Haneke, Video

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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Anna Gorbachyova Benjamin Bevan Claude Debussy David Haneke Gordon Getty Jason Bridges Kevin Short La Chute de la Maison Usher Lawrence Foster Mark Le Brocq Niki Turner Robert Hayward Sir David Pountney Usher House Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra William Dazeley

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Simon Rees

Simon Rees writes programme articles and surtitles for most British opera companies, and reviews for Opera, Opera Now, Musical Opinion, Early Music Today and a wide range of other publications. A novelist, poet and librettist, from 1989 to 2012 he was dramaturg at Welsh National Opera. He lives in Cardiff.