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LondonCosì fan tutte
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Lesley-Anne Sammons; Jenny Miller; Barefoot Opera; Wendy Olver; Jack Hathaway; Minglu Gao; Katerina Oikonomou
LondonMurder Games: A Double Bill
Dring, Rorem
Panaretos Kyriatzidis; Jonny Danciger; The Opera Makers
LondonDido and Aeneas
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Marcio Da Silva; Ensemble OrQuesta; Helen May; Rosemary Carlton-Willis; Tara Venkatesan; Lydia Ward
LondonThe Magic Flute
Mozart: Die Zauberflöte
Marcio Da Silva; Ensemble OrQuesta; John Twitchen; Anna-Luise Wagner; Helen May; Juliet Petrus
LondonGiulio Cesare in Egitto
Händel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, (Julius Caesar in Ägypten) HWV 17
Predrag Gosta; New Trinity Baroque; Sandro Rossi; Radoslava Vorgić; Silvija Radjen Kumar; Federica Moi
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Marschner’s Der Vampyr given a camp reboot by Gothic Opera
Julia Mintzer’s feminist twist on Marschner for Gothic Opera is a scream as Der Vampyr opens the 17th Grimeborn festival in Dalston.
Mystical motherhood at Grimeborn
A double bill from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Tarik O'Regan gives us two unsettling portraits of women whose lives have been indelibly touched by the eternal: an unamed Victorian medium, and the Virgin Mary.
Paper lanterns and origami wings
A Madama Butterfly from beyond the grave? What would Julia Burbach's concept add to the familiar thread of Puccini's opera?
Blame game: Strauss' Daphne at Grimeborn
A disappointingly po-faced and directorally hidebound production almost takes the shine off a superb Daphne starring Justine Viani, with an exciting Peneios from Welsh bass James Gower.
Tawdry goings on: Gala at Grimeborn
A double geriatric sex scene, and real-life bunny boiling, are crude gimmicks which fail to rescue a flaccid, complacent 40 minutes courtesy of Ergo Phizmiz.
Modified Turkish delight: Tchouhadjian’s Gariné
Last night, Glyndebourne presented Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Proms, a tale of intrigue in a Turkish harem. At Grimeborn Festival, a grungy, hip East End alternative, we had the genuine article: Gariné, an opera buffa by Turkish/Armenian composer Dikran Tchouhadjian.
Love conquers all, kills some, exiles others
Nina Brazier’s production for Ryedale Festival Opera, on tour at Grimeborn, resoundingly succeeds on all levels, giving us an evening of luxurious beauty, abandoned sensuality and superb characterisation.
Biting the hand that feeds: Madame X at Grimeborn
Tim Benjamin's new opera is full of good ideas: too full, of too many of them, with a lacklustre and tired plot that doesn't deliver what it promises, despite a gifted and committed cast who resolutely try their best.