Magical Flute: McVicar's Zauberflöte returns to Covent Garden

Par Matthew Rye, 05 novembre 2019

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“British tenor Benjamin Hulett’s Tamino was fresh and lyrical”

Critique faite à Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres, le 4 novembre 2019

Mozart, La Flûte enchantée (Die Zauberflöte)

The Royal Opera

Leo Hussain, Direction

Sir David McVicar, Mise en scène

John Macfarlane, Décors, Costumes

Benjamin Hulett, Tamino

Elsa Dreisig, Pamina

Tuuli Takala, Reine de la nuit

Vito Priante, Papageno

Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Sarastro

Kiandra Howarth, Première Dame

Hongni Wu, Deuxième Dame

Nadine Weissmann, Troisième Dame

Darren Jeffery, L'Orateur (Der Sprecher)

Yaritza Véliz, Papagena

Rodell Rosel, Monostatos

Harry Nicoll, Premier Prêtre

Donald Maxwell, Deuxième Prêtre

Andrés Presno, Premier homme en armure

Julian Close, Second homme en armure

Paule Constable, Lumières

Royal Opera Chorus

Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden

Two funerals and a bedding at the Linbury Theatre

Eleanor Knight, 1st May

Tales of love and loss as operas by Elena Langer, Charlotte Bray and Elizabeth Maconchy form a varied triple bill in this showcase for The Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Artists.

****1

The Turn of the Screw at RBO Linbury: Darkness and denial

Eleanor Knight, 26th March

Natalie Abrahami’s mesmerising new production of Britten’s ghostly tale of sexual abuse is very dark indeed.

*****

A riveting Rigoletto revival at the Royal Opera House

Dominic Lowe, 25th March

Sir Mark Elder celebrates 50 years at Covent Garden by returning to his first opera there in 1976 – Verdi's Rigoletto – in a revival of Oliver Mears' excellent 2021 production.

****1

Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight

David Karlin, 17th March

A revelatory orchestral performance and a cast led by Andreas Schager, Christopher Maltman and Elisabeth Strid make this a Siegfried for the record books.

*****

Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden

Mark Pullinger, 29th January

The second revival of Richard Jones' staging of Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of Boris Godunov once again stars the Welsh knight.

****1

Ermonela Jaho returns in triumph to The Royal Opera’s Traviata

Mark Valencia, 8th January

Richard Eyre’s 32-year-old production is rarely out of The Royal Opera’s repertoire for more than a few months at a time, but this particular revival proves very special.

*****

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Matthew Rye

Matthew read music at Oxford and worked in music journalism for 30 years as a writer, critic and editor. He wrote numerous programme and CD booklet notes, spent 13 years as a Daily Telegraph critic, worked at BBC Music Magazine and was reviews editor of The Strad. He also wrote for The Wagner Journal and Opera and blogged at ferneklang.blogspot.co.uk. He was general editor of 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die (Cassell Illustrated, 2007) and was the author of a new series of eBooks, Masterpieces of Music (Erudition).