Ernani: Sweltering heat, Spanish passions

Por Mark Pullinger, 04 julio 2015

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“the Welsh tenor provided plenty of excitement and ringing top notes”

Crítica hecha desde Queen Elizabeth Hall, Londres el 3 julio 2015

Verdi, Ernani

Chelsea Opera Group

Robin Newton, Dirección

Helena Dix, Elvira

Gwyn Hughes Jones, Ernani

Gerard Quinn, Don Carlo

Jihoon Kim, Don Ruy Gomez de Silva

Erica Eloff, Giovanna

Christopher Turner, Don Riccardo

Matthew Sprange, Jago

Chelsea Opera Group Chorus

Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra

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***11

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Dominic Lowe, 28th February

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***11

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****1

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Aaron Vincent, 25th March

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****1

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Ramón Pereira Blanco, 22nd March

Sofía Esparza y Airam Hernández defienden brillantemente la ópera de Gounod, en la producción de Ópera de Tenerife, con una cuidada dirección escénica de André Heller-Lopes.

****1

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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.

Sweltering heat, Spanish passions: Ernani in concert