Blue lips and beards: The Rake's Progress

Par Richard Milne, 19 mars 2015

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“Božidar Smiljanić... here is a singer ready to be on a professional stage”

Critique faite à Royal Academy of Music: Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, Londres, le 16 mars 2015

Stravinsky, The Rake's Progress

Royal Academy Opera

Dame Jane Glover, Direction

John Ramster, Mise en scène

Adrian Linford, Décors

Bradley Smith, Tom Rakewell

Rhiannon Llewelllyn, Anne Trulove

Božidar Smiljanić, Nick Shadow

Claire Barnett-Jones, Baba the Turk

Katherine Aitken, Mother Goose

Gwilym Bowen, Sellem

Ed Ballard, Keeper of the madhouse

Lancelot Nomura, Trulove

Victoria Newlyn, Chorégraphie

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

Royal Academy Opera stages a magical Zauberflöte

Mark Valencia, 18th March

A lyrical yet zesty account of Mozart's' adorable score, in a production that is on the nose and off the wall.

****1

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

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Blue lips and beards: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music