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Ning Feng’s Korngold is not quite a “Hollywood hit” in Poole
Sian Edwards takes the helm of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Britten, Korngold and Dvořák, with mixed results.
All the world’s a jest: Falstaff returns to Glyndebourne
Richard Jones' 2009 production returns to Glyndebourne after a long absence, but the 1940s comedy scrubs up fresh.
Sisterhood tenderly explored: Little Women at Opera Holland Park
Composer-librettist Adamo does full justice to Louisa May Alcott's 19th-century bestseller, one of the most widely read works in American literature.
Wolf-Ferrari entertains, Tchaikovsky bewitches at Holland Park
Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna provides an airy bon-bouche to Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, brilliantly sung by Natalya Romaniw and David Butt Philip and conducted to fairy-tale perfection by Sian Edwards
It's grim up North: a heartbreaking Katya Kabanova in Leeds
Tim Albery's production for Opera North is well sung and superbly acted, involving us deeply in Janáček's tragic family drama.
Entertaining but not entrancing: Turnage's Coraline
Mark-Anthony Turnage's take on Neil Gaiman's classic young adult novella is well sung and well staged, without quite reaching peak intensity.
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Sian Edwards on conducting Turnage's Coraline
Mark Anthony Turnage's Coraline has just received its world première. We catch up with its conductor, Sian Edwards, to discuss the score and wider contemporary opera.