Sonorous Sibelius overshadows a lighter Mozart Requiem

Par Ken Ward, 27 octobre 2014

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Critique faite à Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, le 26 octobre 2014

Wagner, Lohengrin: prélude de l'acte 1

Sibelius, Symphonie no. 4 en la mineur, Op.63

Mozart, Requiem en ré mineur, K626 (New completed edition by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs)

Aoife O'Sullivan, Soprano

Rosie Aldridge, Mezzo-soprano

Ru Charlesworth, Ténor

Matthew Brook, Baryton-basse

Chorus of Opera North

Orchestra of Opera North

Jac van Steen, Direction

John Findon triumphs in the return of Opera North’s Peter Grimes

Richard Wilcocks, 13th February

Benjamin Britten’s dark masterpiece Peter Grimes returns triumphantly to Opera North, conducted by Gary Walker and revived by Karolina Sofulak and Tim Claydon.

*****

Opera North’s Susanna: how a woman stood up to her abusers

Richard Wilcocks, 4th October

Handel's oratorio is staged by Olivia Fuchs and conducted by Johanna Soller in Opera North's latest successful collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre.

****1

To be or not to be: Hamlet returns to the Buxton Festival

Mark Pullinger, 16th July

After 45 years, Ambroise Thomas' Hamlet returns to Buxton in a gripping, psychological staging by Jack Furness.

****1

Opera North’s “fleeing” Dutchman links to plight of asylum seekers

Richard Wilcocks, 1st February

Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Annabel Arden, conjures up frightening storms and links the production to the plight of asylum seekers.

****1

Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived

Richard Wilcocks, 27th September

Conducted by Christoph Konz and directed by James Brining, Opera North’s revival of The Magic Flute remains an inventive reinterpretation of Mozart’s classic opera.

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Richard Wilcocks, 15th February

Opera North's revives its Cavalleria rusticana production by Karolina Sofulak, pairing it this time with Rachmaninov's early opera Aleko.

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Ken Ward

Ken Ward spent most of his working life driving buses for Eastern National and London Buses. With a life-long enthusiasm for the works of Bruckner, he became editor of The Bruckner Journal in 2005 and was awarded The Bruckner Society of America 'Kilenyi' Medal of Honor in 2011.

Opera North's sonorous Sibelius overshadows a lighter Mozart Requiem