The after party you can't miss: Pinchgut's Platée

Por Chantal Nguyen, 03 diciembre 2021

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“Pinchgut’s Platée is the kind of frog you should want to kiss”

Crítica hecha desde City Recital Hall, Sídney el 1 diciembre 2021

Rameau, Platée

Pinchgut Opera

Erin Helyard, Dirección

Neil Armfield, Dirección de escena

Stephen Curtis, Diseño de escena

Alexander Berlage, Diseño de iluminación

Kanen Breen, Platée

Cathy-Di Zhang, La Folie, Amour

Peter Coleman-Wright, Jupiter

Nicholas Jones, Mercure, Thespis

Adrian Tamburini, Cithéron, Satyr

Cheryl Barker, Junon

David Greco, Momus

Chloe Lankshear, Clarine

Amy Moore, Thalie

Shannon Burns, Coreografía

Cantillation

Orchestra of the Antipodes

Netia Jones directs Pinchgut Opera in a well-oiled Fairy Queen

Jeremy Eccles, 7th June

A rare 17th-century English Baroque spectacular, designed to delight the Restoration crowd, is given a contemporary twist in Sydney.

****1

Julius Caesar – or some of it – from Pinchgut Opera

Sandra Bowdler, 21st November

Handel's Giulio Cesare is heavily abridged in Sydney, but generally well-performed musically, albeit with a rather awkward staging by Neil Armfield.

***11

Faithful to Handel: Pinchgut Opera performs Theodora

Jeremy Eccles, 8th February

Pinchgut Opera presents magnificent music and a timeless ethical debate on faith versus sectarian difference.

****1

A streamlined, dramatic Rinaldo from Pinchgut

Sandra Bowdler, 30th November

Although abbreviated, Pinchgut Opera's production of Handel's Rinaldo makes a powerful dramatic impact and exemplifies high musical values, with excellent orchestral playing and consistently fine singing.

****1

Baroque opera resurrected at Pinchgut: Legrenzi's Giustino

Jeremy Eccles, 25th May

Unseen since the 18th Century apart from one night in Germany, Legrenzi's Giustino deserves to re-enter the repertoire after its revival by Pinchgut Opera's Erin Helyard.

*****

Sublime performance of Buxtehude by Pinchgut Opera

Sandra Bowdler, 4th April

A wonderful night of late 17th-century music by the somewhat obscure German composer Dietrich Buxtehude is brought to radiant life by Erin Helyard and the Pinchgut Opera company.

*****

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Chantal Nguyen

Chantal has a background in ballet and contemporary dance, and was the first Australian to complete the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in Higher Level Dance. She has completed violin studies, and plays regularly in Sydney ensembles. She also dabbles in folk songs and subversive musical parody.