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Billowing silk and blue hair: Phelim McDermott creates an evocative Aida for ENO

By Mark Pullinger, 29 September 2017
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“the leopard-skin fez... should clearly be adopted as this year's must-have fashion accessory”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 28 September 2017
Programme
Verdi, Aida
Performers
English National Opera
Keri-Lynn Wilson, Conductor
Phelim McDermott, Director
Tom Pye, Set Designer
Kevin Pollard, Costume Designer
Michelle DeYoung, Amneris
Gwyn Hughes Jones, Radamès
Musa Ngqungwana, Amonasro
Latonia Moore, Aida
Matthew Best, King of Egypt
Robert Winslade Anderson, Ramfis
Eleanor Dennis, Priestess
David Webb, A messenger
English National Opera Chorus
English National Opera Orchestra
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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.