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Telling Tales: Danyal Dhondy's Shahrazad unveiled at Leighton House

By Mark Pullinger, 12 February 2017
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Reviewed at Leighton House, London on 11 February 2017
Programme
Dhondy, Shahrazad
Performers
Opera Vera
Philip Hesketh, Conductor, Piano
Nina Brazier, Director
Philippa Boyle, Shahrazad / Abbasa
Christine Buras, Princess Almond
Aurore Lacabe, Zubeidah / Prince Jasmine
Alexander Anderson-Hall, King Sharyar
Tom Morss, Jafar
Peter Brooke, Haroun al-Rashid
Martin Lamb, Storyteller/ Dervish/ Akbar/ Wicked Uncle/ Yarya
Flora Curzon, Violin
Nicola Barbagli, Oboe
Kimon Parry, Clarinet
Josh Salter, Cello
Joely Cragg, Tabla
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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.