Risk of sensory overload: ENO's Lulu

Par David Karlin, 10 novembre 2016

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“one can only watch with morbid fascination at the spiritual emptiness”

Critique faite à The London Coliseum, Londres, le 9 novembre 2016

Berg, Lulu

English National Opera

Mark Wigglesworth, Direction

William Kentridge, Mise en scène

Sabine Theunissen, Décors

Greta Goiris, Costumes

Brenda Rae, Lulu

Dame Sarah Connolly, Countess Geschwitz

Clare Presland, High-School Boy, Theatrical Dresser

Sarah Champion, Woman artist

Nicky Spence, Alwa

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts, Manservant, Prince

Michael Colvin, The Painter

James Morris, Dr. Schön / Jack the Ripper

Geoffrey Dolton, Journalist

Sir Willard White, Schigolch, an old man

David Soar, Animal Tamer, Athlete

Graeme Danby, Banker, Theatre manager

English National Opera Orchestra

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at ENO

Dominic Lowe, 6th February

English National Opera's revival of Phelim McDermott’s popular production is a blend of spectacle with some first-class singing, with Lucy Crowe emphasising her Mozartian credentials.

****1

Cocteau-esque camp: Alden’s Partenope returns to ENO

Mark Valencia, 20th November

Christopher Alden’s Olivier Award-winning production of Handel’s Partenope returns to the Coliseum, but it's the singing that earns the plaudits.

****1

Dead Man Walking at English National Opera: a superb execution

David Karlin, 1st November

Anneliese Miskimmon's ENO production of Jake Heggie and Terence McNally's tale of crime, repentance, compassion and redemption compels from start to finish.

*****

Comedy falls flat in ENO's season opening Cinderella

Mark Valencia, 27th September

Julia Burbach and her designer, Herbert Murauer, are defeated by the wide canyons of the Coliseum stage in their modern-dress Cinderella.

**111

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

Nick Boston, 15th February

Musgrave's powerful depiction of a powerful woman at the mercy of male manipulation receives a strong staging from at ENO.

****1

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

Dramatic intensity, risk of sensory overload: ENO's Lulu