Comedy with knobs on: English National Opera's new Figaro

Por Benjamin Poore, 16 marzo 2020

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“Louise Alder... every phrase sculpted with intelligence and insight”

Crítica hecha desde The London Coliseum, Londres el 14 marzo 2020

Mozart, Las bodas de Fígaro (Le nozze di Figaro)

English National Opera

Kevin John Edusei, Dirección

Joe Hill-Gibbins, Dirección de escena

Johannes Schultz, Diseño de escena

Astria Klein, Diseño de vestuario

Božidar Smiljanić, Figaro

Louise Alder, Susanna

Johnathan McCullough, Count Almaviva

Elizabeth Watts, Countess Almaviva

Hanna Hipp, Cherubino

Andrew Shore, Doctor Bartolo

Susan Bickley, Marcellina

Colin Judson, Don Curzio, Don Basilio

Rowan Pierce, Barbarina

Jenny Ogilvie, Coreografía

Bernd Velder, Diseño de iluminación

English National Opera Chorus

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Benjamin Poore

Benjamin Poore is a writer and critic. His book on psychoanalysis and literature is forthcoming in 2019. He has previously written about literature and culture for the Independent, the Times Literary Supplement, and Times Higher Education. In his spare time he tries to sing Schubert; he has a very patient teacher.