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Tragedy undermined: Peter Brook's La Tragédie de Carmen at Wilton's Music Hall

Par Mark Pullinger, 05 novembre 2017
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“Akhmetshina's... mezzo is ripe and syrupy, seductive in her habanera”
Critique faite à Wilton's Music Hall, Londres, le 4 novembre 2017
Programme
Bizet, La Tragédie de Carmen
Artistes
The Royal Opera
James Hendry, Direction
Gerard Jones, Mise en scène
Cécile Trémolières, Décors
Donna Raphael, Costumes
Aigul Akhmetshina, Carmen
Thomas Atkins, Don José
Francesca Chiejina, Micaëla
Gyula Nagy, Escamillo, Garcia, Zuniga
Southbank Sinfonia
Joshua Pharo, Lumières
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.