Houston Grand Opera wastes a Figaro

Par Sydney Boyd, 23 janvier 2016

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Critique faite à Wortham Theater Center: Brown Theater, Houston, le 22 janvier 2016

Mozart, Les Noces de Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro)

Houston Grand Opera

Harry Bicket, Direction

Michael Grandage, Mise en scène

Christopher Oram, Décors, Costumes

Adam Plachetka, Figaro

Heidi Stober, Suzanne (Susanna)

Ben Edquist, le Comte Almaviva

Ailyn Pérez, la Comtesse Almaviva

Lauren Snouffer, Chérubin (Cherubino)

Peixin Chen, le docteur Bartolo

Catherine Cook, Marceline (Marcellina)

Chris Bozeka, Don Curzio

Keith Jameson, Don Basilio

Pureum Jo, Barberine (Barbarina)

Houston Grand Opera Orchestra

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Houston Grand Opera's new production is fully digital combining live singing with animated backgrounds.

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Edward Sava-Segal, 27th November

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Fear in future past: Siegfried at Houston Grand Opera

Sydney Boyd, 16th April

The production is a disconcerting combination of cold metallic future and Neanderthal aesthetics – a startling pairing of humanity’s beginning and its end.

****1

Magical debuts make the myth alive in Houston Grand Opera's Rusalka

Sydney Boyd, 29th January

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***11

A charmed Little Prince at Houston Grand Opera

Sydney Boyd, 4th December

As part of the season of Scrooges and Santas, it’s a refreshing reminder of sweet simplicity in a complicated world.

***11

HGO's Onegin stars an unlikely hero

Sydney Boyd, 30th October

Re-imagining this opera with Prince Gremin as the show-stealer was no doubt a happy accident.

****1

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Sydney Boyd

Sydney Boyd is an arts writer, scholar, and violinist. She has been a music critic in Houston since 2012 and is the blog author of Girl at the Opera. She has a Ph.D. in English literature from Rice University, where she currently holds a post-doctoral Spatial Studies fellowship in the Humanities Research Center.