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Performer: Olivia Ray

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GloucesterBeethoven Mass in C

Three Choirs Festival
McDowall, Rubbra, Beethoven
Philharmonia Orchestra; Samuel Hudson; Charlotte Bowden; Olivia Ray; Mark Padmore; John Savournin
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Aleko on the Arno: Bryn Terfel leads fine new GPO double bill

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An unlikely pairing opens Grange Park Opera's season, the two works united by the dominant central character of each opera – Sir Bryn Terfel.

****1
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A brilliant barrack room ballad: Otello at Grange Park Opera

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Gwyn Hughes Jones, Elizabeth Llewellyn and Sir Simon Keenlyside star in David Alden's setting of Otello in a militarised Cyprus.
****1
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Alexander Litvinenko: a thrilling – if imperfect – world premiere

Ivor Bolton and Kit Hesketh-Harvey deliver a brilliant political thriller and anti-Putin polemic – at least for its first half.
****1
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Romantic love blooms in the lost garden of West Horsley

Olena Tokar's assured coloratura made an immediate success of the waltz with her convincingly adolescent appearance, rhythmic verve and stylish phrasing.
***11
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Visceral Verdi via 1950s Hollywood at Grange Park Opera

Stylish, intelligent and visceral, with a magnetic central performance by Claire Rutter, Grange Park give us a powerful, tough La traviata updated to 1950s Hollywood.
****1
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Sixteen nuns executed near Winchester: Dialogues des Carmélites at Grange Park

When you think chic, black-tie country house opera, you probably don’t also think sixteen barefoot nuns being executed. Grange Park Opera’s fusion of these two contrasting ideas, however, has a lot going for it: their production of Francis Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites combines its minimal but effective staging with some impressive singing.
***11
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