Love conquers all: English Touring Opera's The Coronation of Poppea appals while it enchants

Par Charlotte Valori, 15 octobre 2013

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Critique faite à Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre, Londres, le 28 septembre 2013

Monteverdi, L'incoronazione di Poppea (Le Couronnement de Poppée), SV 308

English Touring Opera

Michael Rosewell, Direction

James Conway, Mise en scène

Old Street Band

Helen Sherman, Nerone (Néron)

Paula Sides, Poppea (Poppée)

Piotr Lempa, Seneca (Sénèque)

Hannah Pedley, Ottavia (Octavie)

Michał Czerniawski, Ottone (Othon)

Catrine Kirkman, Drusilla

Stuart Haycock, Lucano (Lucain)

Jake Arditti, Amore (L'Amour)

Nicholas Merryweather, Liberto (Libertus)

Russell Harcourt, Nutrice (La nourrice)

Mark Wilde, Arnalta

English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

Dominic Lowe, 27th September

L'elisir d'amore may not immediately bring Skegness or Romney to mind, but ETO's new production works quite well there... just look out for the seagulls!

***11

Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

David Karlin, 22nd February

Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.

****1

A tender Shakespeare-inspired curio from English Touring Opera

Susannah Moody, 15th February

ETO kicks off its spring season with What Dreams May Come, a strange and moving staging of songs inspired by William Shakespeare.

***11

Theatrically poverty-stricken: ETO's Blond Eckbert

Mark Valencia, 18th October

Judith Weir's cryptic folk opera lacks the narrative propulsion necessary to enthral an audience, and without resolution there is no catharsis.

**111

ETO's The Snowmaiden melts the heart and gladdens the ears

Dominic Lowe, 28th September

Olivia Fuchs' production of Rimsky-Korsakov's charming fable for ETO begins its tour in Hackney and is worth travelling to see. Catch this thoughtful production in a town near you.

****1

ETO opens spring tour with an off-the-wall Manon Lescaut

Mark Valencia, 24th February

Jude Christian's indulgent reinvention of Puccini's opera does not serve English Touring Opera well as it embarks on its spring tour.

**111

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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.