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Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Sebastian Hill (Miles Zegner) and Aidan O'Donnell (The Sodbuster) © David Monteith-Hodge
Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre. 
****1
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Comic opera minus the fizz: Telemann makes his Royal Opera debut

Grisha Martirosyan (Pimpinone) and Isabela Díaz (Vespetta) © RBO | Camilla Greenwell
Pimpinone was conceived as a musical interlude – or intermezzo – between acts of Handel’s Tamerlano. Here, it marks the first time a Telemann opera has been staged at Covent Garden. 
***11
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Chabrier’s L’Étoile is a box of zany effervescent delight at the RCS

William Searle (King Ouf I) and Rosalind Dobson (Princess Laloula) © Robbie McFadzean | RCS

The spirited principals and chorus of the Royal Conservatoire Scotland are directed by PF Harris in Chabrier’s fizzing opéra bouffe.

****1
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