Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival

Por Mark Pullinger, 08 julio 2018

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“Madeleine Pierard sang a terrific, spitfire Elettra, a fearless performance”

Crítica hecha desde Buxton Opera House, Buxton el 8 julio 2018

Mozart, Idomeneo, rè di Creta

Buxton Festival Chorus

Nicholas Kok, Dirección

Stephen Medcalf, Dirección de escena

Isabella Bywater, Diseño de escena

Paul Nilon, Idomeneo

Rebecca Bottone, Ilia

Heather Lowe, Idamante

Madeleine Pierard, Elettra

Ben Thapa, Arbace

Luke Sinclair, High Priest

Julian Debreuil, The Oracle of Neptune

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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.