Nuns on the run: Le Comte Ory

Par Mark Pullinger, 26 juin 2016

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Critique faite à Cadogan Hall, Londres, le 25 juin 2016

Rossini, Le Comte Ory

Chelsea Opera Group

Toby Purser, Direction

Mark Milhofer, Le Comte Ory

Claire Booth, La Comtesse Adèle

Heather Lowe, Isolier

Benedict Nelson, Raimbaud

Anne Mason, Ragonde

Steven Page, Le Gouverneur

Margo Arsane, Alice

Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra

Chelsea Opera Group Chorus

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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.

Nuns on the run: laughs aplenty in Chelsea Opera's Le Comte Ory