Camptastic, darling: Rameau's Platée

Par Charlotte Valori, 24 novembre 2014

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“Platée... clicking her heels, her towering curls and bearded cheeks channelling Conchita Wurst”

Critique faite à Smith Square Hall, Londres, le 20 novembre 2014

Rameau, Platée

Early Opera Company

Paul Agnew, Direction

Thomas Walker, Platée

Emilie Renard, Junon

Mark Milhofer, Mercure, Thespis

Callum Thorpe, Jupiter

Martijn Cornet, Satyr

Early Opera Company Orchestra

Doppeljubiläum von ZaterdagMatinee und Early Opera Company

Jens Klier, 18th October

Christian Curnyn feierte mit seinen Musikern und Mr Purcell ein würdiges Ehrenfest.

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Fairy style for the Fairest Isle: King Arthur at Temple Church

Roy Westbrook, 27th September

A concert performance of a Purcell semi-opera can never fully succeed, but compromise is worth it, if it enables us to hear a significant part of a major composer's output.

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Giulio Cesare in Londra with the marvellous EOC

Roy Westbrook, 11th April

Anna Devin's Cleopatra moved with complete conviction for scheming minx to mature woman in love.

*****

Delicious downtime with the Duchess: La descente d’Orphée aux enfers with the Early Opera Company

Charlotte Valori, 17th June

Closing your eyes while listening, you could easily imagine yourself in a gilt-edged salon, with Her Highness Mademoiselle Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise, peer of France, princess of Joinville, hereditary seneschal of Champagne herself sitting not far from you, enjoying and approving every lovely note.

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Laments and combats: Deep emotions in Monteverdi Ballets at Spitalfields

Cristina de Lucas, 17th June

Under the title “Monteverdi Ballets”, Spitalfields Music Summer Festival presented a joint collaboration between the Early Opera Company and Avant Garde Dance. The challenge was to merge music and dance coming from two different artistic projects into a single unified product.

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Spitalfields Music Summer Festival: A rare outing for Handel's Susanna by the Early Opera Company

Julia Savage, 12th June

The decision to appoint the Early Opera Company and Scanner as this year’s associate artists says much about Spitalfields Music Summer Festival, an eclectic cornucopia of classical and non-classical music concerts by professional and amateur artists, bespoke tours, and family activities.

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Camptastic, darling: Rameau's Platée from the Early Opera Company