War and Peace: WNO comes to London to parade its wares

Von Mark Valencia, 24 Juli 2019

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“Heaven knows it deserves to win something, if only for the logistics”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, am 23 Juli 2019

Prokofjew, War and Peace (Sung in English)

Welsh National Opera

Tomáš Hanus, Musikalische Leitung

Sir David Pountney, Regie

Robert Innes Hopkins, Bühnenbild

Marie-Jeanne Lecca, Kostüme

Jonathan McGovern, Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

Lauren Michelle, Natasha Rostova

Mark Le Brocq, Count Pierre Bezukhov

Simon Bailey, Field-Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov

James Platt, Count Ilya Rostov

Jurgita Adamonytė, Hélène Bezukhova

Adrian Dwyer, Anatole Kuragin

David Stout, Dolokhov

Gareth Dafydd Morris, Platon Karataev, General Pyotr Konovnitsyn

Leah-Marian Jones, Princess Marya Bolkonskaya

Sarah Pope, Matriosha, Trishka

Laurence Cole, Gavrila, Matveyev

Julian Boyce, Metivier

Carolyn Jackson, Vasilisa

Joe Roche, Monsieur de Beausset , French Abbé

Welsh National Opera Chorus

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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Adrian Dwyer Carolyn Jackson David Stout Gareth Dafydd Morris James Platt Joe Roche Jonathan McGovern Julian Boyce Jurgita Adamonytė Lauren Michelle Laurence Cole Leah-Marian Jones Marie-Jeanne Lecca Mark Le Brocq Robert Innes Hopkins Sarah Pope Sergej Prokofjew Simon Bailey Sir David Pountney Tomáš Hanus War and Peace Welsh National Opera Welsh National Opera Chorus Welsh National Opera Orchestra

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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.

War and Peace: Welsh National Opera comes to London to parade its wares