A character study in singing: Handel’s Tamerlano at ETO

Rodrigo Sosa dal Pozzo (Tamerlano) and James Hall (Andronico)

Jorge Navarro Colorado (Bajazet)

April Koyejo-Audiger (Irene), Rodrigo Sosa dal Pozzo (Tamerlano), Jorge Navarro Colorado (Bajazet)

Ellie Laugharne (Asteria)

Par David Karlin, 09 octobre 2022

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“the outstanding feature of this cast is the intensity of feeling with which all five imbued the text”

Critique faite à Hackney Empire, Londres, le 8 octobre 2022

Haendel, Tamerlano

English Touring Opera

Jonathan Peter Kenny, Direction

James Conway, Mise en scène

Rebecca van Beeck, Décors, Costumes

Tim van 't Hof, Lumières

Old Street Band

Ellie Laugharne, Asteria

Rodrigo Sosa dal Pozzo, Tamerlano

Jorge Navarro Colorado, Bajazet

James Hall, Andronico

April Koyejo-Audiger, Irene

Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci

Dominic Lowe, 10th April

Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera’s contemporary take on Leoncavallo’s masterpiece ticks all the boxes.

****1

English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

Dominic Lowe, 27th September

L'elisir d'amore may not immediately bring Skegness or Romney to mind, but ETO's new production works quite well there... just look out for the seagulls!

***11

Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

David Karlin, 22nd February

Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.

****1

A tender Shakespeare-inspired curio from English Touring Opera

Susannah Moody, 15th February

ETO kicks off its spring season with What Dreams May Come, a strange and moving staging of songs inspired by William Shakespeare.

***11

Theatrically poverty-stricken: ETO's Blond Eckbert

Mark Valencia, 18th October

Judith Weir's cryptic folk opera lacks the narrative propulsion necessary to enthral an audience, and without resolution there is no catharsis.

**111

ETO's The Snowmaiden melts the heart and gladdens the ears

Dominic Lowe, 28th September

Olivia Fuchs' production of Rimsky-Korsakov's charming fable for ETO begins its tour in Hackney and is worth travelling to see. Catch this thoughtful production in a town near you.

****1

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A character study in singing: Handel’s Tamerlano at English Touring Opera