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There was an element of scenic continuity between the lush greenery and positively balmy Holland Park evening surrounding us, and the staging of Opera Holland Park’s production of L’elisir d’amore: in the background, a large greenhouse full of the brightest sunflowers; in the foreground, sunflowers dotted about the stage, and the back ends of two lorries plastered with a large image of a field of

Fact is, they say, stranger than fiction. Damon Albarn’s latest foray onto the operatic stage certainly makes strange the true-life story of Elizabethan intellectual and philosopher John Dee.

Nouvelle production de l'Académie de l'Opéra de Paris à l'amphithéâtre de l'Opéra Bastille, Owen Wingrave s'avère très solide musicalement et nous offre de belles surprises sur le plan vocal, bien que l'œuvre si rarement jouée de Britten soit abordée de manière quelque peu inégale.