Claudia Molitor's Remember Me at Spitalfields

By Charlotte Valori, 10 December 2013

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Reviewed at Rivington Place, London on 9 December 2013

Molitor, Remember Me

Dan Ayling, Director

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Emily Howard's new opera, an Aldeburgh Festival commission, takes an ambitiously modernist approach to a dystopian story of loneliness: a tough, but thought-provoking work.

****1

Written on skin, chef-d'œuvre de George Benjamin à la Philharmonie

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Clou du festival Présences qui lui est consacré, George Benjamin dirige un Written on skin bouleversant à la Philharmonie, qui rappelle avant tout la richesse de l'écriture orchestrale du compositeur.

****1

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****1

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Robert Carsen's staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

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At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace.

*****

Bless this house: a Passiontide Parsifal in Erl

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Alpine mountains and streams set the scene for an illuminating production of Wagner's 'play to consecrate a stage'.

****1

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Slow-motion memories: Remember Me at Spitalfields Music Winter Festival