Arcadia in the Peak District: Mozart's Il re pastore in Buxton

Katie Coventry (Aminta)

Ellie Neate (Elisa) and Katie Coventry (Aminta)

Joseph Doody (Alessandro) and George Curnow (Agenore)

Olivia Carrell (Tamiri)

Par Sarah Noble, 12 juillet 2023

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“wringing every drop of expression out of recitative and aria alike”

Critique faite à Buxton Opera House, Buxton, le 9 juillet 2023

Mozart, Il re pastore (new production)

Buxton Festival Opera

Adrian Kelly, Direction

Jack Furness, Mise en scène

Hannah Wolfe, Décors, Costumes

Jake Wiltshire, Lumières

Northern Chamber Orchestra

Katie Coventry, Aminta

Ellie Neate, Elisa

Olivia Carrell, Tamiri

George Curnow, Agenore

Joseph Doody, Alessandro

From the ballroom to the trenches: The Land of Might-Have-Been

Sarah Noble, 15th July

Setting the life of Vera Brittain to the music of Ivor Novello, Buxton Festival's new musical is a welcome if overambitious showcase for them both.

***11

Buxton Festival celebrates 40th anniversary with Eugene Onegin

Robert Gainer, 6th July

Every July, Buxton’s charming opera house hosts an international festival of opera, literature and the arts. This year the festival opened with a strong familiar favourite, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

****1

For teenage kicks: Mozart's Lucio Silla at Buxton International Festival

Charlotte Valori, 9th July

The fashion for reviving Mozart's teenage operas brings a vocally dazzling production of Lucio Silla to Buxton, nevertheless hampered by the work's own lack of believable drama and some fairly flat staging.

***11

Fresh peaches of temptation

Charlotte Valori, 8th July

A period-perfect Albert Herring from Francis Matthews for Buxton International Festival takes time to settle into its stride, but provides plenty of laughs along the way.

****1

Verdi's Macbeth at Buxton International Festival

Charlotte Valori, 7th July

A searing, edge-of-your-seat spinetingler from Elijah Moshinsky makes the strongest possible case for Verdi's first Macbeth, ideally suited to the proportions of Buxton's beautiful Opera House.

*****

Games of Thrones: Handel's Tamerlano

Dominic Lowe, 10th July

Handel's psychotic Tartar leader and bedhopping nobles are well served in an excellent collaboration between the Buxton Festival and the English Concert with some outstanding singing from Marie Lys and Owen Willetts.

****1

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Sarah Noble

Originally from New Zealand, Sarah Noble is an arts administrator and freelance writer whose articles and reviews have appeared in Limelight, Opera, NZ Opera News and The Opera Critic. After stints in Sydney, Orlando, London and Manchester, she's now based in Macclesfield but travels frequently in pursuit of live performance – operatic and otherwise. Sarah was previously the producer of the International Opera Awards and now works as production co-ordinator for a classical music filming company.

Arcadia in the Peak District: Mozart's Il re pastore at the Buxton International Festival