The curate's night out: the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight

Par Charlotte Valori, 24 juillet 2015

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“Rock Tosca: big, sweaty, loud and brilliant”

Critique faite à Egg, Londres, le 23 juillet 2015

Horowitz, One Day This Will Be Long Ago

Robertson, China Doll – A Neuropera in Four Seasons

Schouten, Rock Tosca

Salorian, Boys of Paradise

Opera Breve

Ross Gunning, Direction

Thomas Humphreys, Baryton

Victoria Atkinson, Soprano

Ella Marchment, Mise en scène

James Schouten, Baryton

Justine Viani, Soprano

Edward Hughes, Ténor

Timothy Patrick, Baryton-basse

Jack Holton, Baryton

Piran Legg, Baryton-basse

Adam O'Shea, Ténor

Jean-Max Lattemann, Contre-ténor

Edmund Whitehead, Direction

Eduardo Mas Bacardit, Ténor

Emily Kyte, Mezzo-soprano

Erlanger's L'Aube rouge a damp squib at Wexford Festival Opera

Andrew Larkin, 29th October

Erlanger's fractured and clichéd opera isn't helped by confused direction, although soprano Andreea Soare is nothing short of magnificent as the heroine.

**111

Sisterhood tenderly explored: Little Women at Opera Holland Park

David Karlin, 22nd July

Composer-librettist Adamo does full justice to Louisa May Alcott's 19th-century bestseller, one of the most widely read works in American literature.

****1

A darkly atmospheric Turn of the Screw from Bury Court Opera

Mark Valencia, 9th March

As the Governess Alison Rose was the ideal suffering soprano, her eyes an imbroglio of psychological disturbances.

****1

An intravenous injection of Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires at the Vaults

David Karlin, 13th May

Piazzolla's "tango operita" is confusing, weird but full of the unique character of his music, performed superbly by an orchestra which mixes jazz and classical feel.

***11

Gustave Charpentier's Louise at the Buxton Festival

Andrew H. King, 16th July

Gustave Charpentier's Louise, revived and in excellent form at the Buxton Festival.

***11

Siegfried et l’art du chant au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

Pierre Michel, 19th April

Pour ce troisième volet du Ring proposé en version de concert par Yannick Nézet-Séguin et l'Orchestre philharmonique de Rotterdam, c'est le plateau vocal qui brille avant tout, éclipsant l'orchestre et le chef.

***11

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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.

The curate's night out: the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight at Egg, London