Blue lips and beards: The Rake's Progress

Por Richard Milne, 19 marzo 2015

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“Božidar Smiljanić... here is a singer ready to be on a professional stage”

Crítica hecha desde Royal Academy of Music: Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Londres el 16 marzo 2015

Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress

Royal Academy Opera

Dame Jane Glover, Dirección

John Ramster, Dirección de escena

Adrian Linford, Diseño de escena

Bradley Smith, Tom Rakewell

Rhiannon Llewelllyn, Anne Trulove

Božidar Smiljanić, Nick Shadow

Claire Barnett-Jones, Baba the Turk

Katherine Aitken, Mother Goose

Gwilym Bowen, Sellem

Ed Ballard, Keeper of the madhouse

Lancelot Nomura, Trulove

Victoria Newlyn, Coreografía

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Blue lips and beards: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music