Royal Academy Opera stages a magical Zauberflöte

Binny Supin Yang (Queen of the Night)

Daniel Vening (Sarastro)

Conrad Chatterton (Papageno)

Zahid Siddiqui (Tamino) and Grace Hope-Gill (Pamina)

Par Mark Valencia, 19 mars 2025

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“every note was a jewel, every giddy peak of her coloratura a glittering diamond”

Critique faite à Royal Academy of Music: Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Londres, le 18 mars 2025

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte)

Royal Academy Opera

Olivia Clarke, Direction

Jamie Manton, Mise en scène

Justin Nardella, Décors, Costumes

Charlie Morgan Jones, Lumières

Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra

Zahid Siddiqui, Tamino

Conrad Chatterton, Papageno

Grace Hope-Gill, Pamina

Binny Supin Yang, Reine de la nuit

Daniel Vening, Sarastro

Erin O'Rourke, Première Dame

Charlotte Clapperton, Deuxième Dame

Anna-Helena Maclachlan, Troisième Dame

Llinos Haf Jones, Papagena

Owen Lucas, Premier homme en armure, Monostatos

Theodore McAlindon, Second homme en armure, L'Orateur (Der Sprecher)

Hailey West, Premier garçon

Anna Lluna, Deuxième garçon

Núria Prats Illanas, Troisième garçon

George Reynolds, Premier Prêtre

Le ravissement de Semele à Londres

Georgiana Hatara, 17th November

À la Royal Academy of Music, Semele de Händel offre une expérience jubilatoire et rafraîchissante. Mise en scène ingénieuse et jeunes chanteurs talentueux sont au menu de cette production.

****1

The Royal Academy's Carmen has too many what-if moments

Dominic Lowe, 18th November

Presenting a work like Carmen is a punchy move by a conservatoire. The Royal Academy of Music's production has conceptual weaknesses, but features some good singing.

***11

A dystopian Hansel und Gretel at the RAM

Mark Valencia, 20th November

Jack Furness serves up an unappetising mess of Humperdinck's delicious masterpiece for Royal Academy Opera.

***11

Keeping it surreal: Martinů double-bill at the Royal Academy of Music

Dominic Lowe, 8th May

With typical spirit, the students at the Royal Academy of Music did an excellent job in bringing Martinů’s Comedy on the Bridge and Alexandre bis to life – two lesser-known pre-war surrealist gems.

***11

Unreal city: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music

Benjamin Poore, 22nd November

Frederic Wake-Walker's realisation of the Hogarth-inspired opera is visually bracing and assuredly sung.

****1

Die Wahrheit liegt in der Musik: Dido and Aeneas an der Royal Academy

Rainer Zerbst, 27th May

Ein ausdrucksstarkes Dirigat von Elizabeth Kenny und ein grandioses Sängerensemble beeindrucken in London.

***11

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.