Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira in Buxton

Por Mark Pullinger, 08 julio 2018

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“a rousing account of Verdi's score... with the requisite punch”

Crítica hecha desde Buxton Opera House, Buxton el 7 julio 2018

Verdi, Alzira

Buxton Festival Chorus

Stephen Barlow, Dirección

Elijah Moshinsky, Dirección de escena

Russell Craig, Diseño de escena

Kate Ladner, Alzira

James Cleverton, Gusmano

Graeme Danby, Alvaro

Jung Soo Yun, Zamoro

Philip Wilcox, Ataliba

Helen Bailey, Zuma

Luke Sinclair, Otumbo

Brian McNamee, Ovando

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira staged at the Buxton Festival