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Burlesque and bats: Christopher Alden reinvents Die Fledermaus for ENO

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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 30 September 2013
Strauss II, Die Fledermaus
Eun Sun Kim, Conductor
Christopher Alden, Director
Allen Moyer, Set Designer
Tom Randle, Gabriel von Eisenstein
Julia Sporsén, Rosalinde
Andrew Shore, Frank
Jennifer Holloway, Prinz Orlofsky
Richard Burkhard, Dr Falke
Simon Butteriss, Dr Blind
Rhian Lois, Adele
ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire
*****
Taken for a ride: an energetic revival of Così fan tutte at ENO
****1
Cocteau-esque camp: Alden’s Partenope returns to ENO
****1
Dead Man Walking at English National Opera: a superb execution
*****
Comedy falls flat in ENO's season opening Cinderella
**111
ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance
****1
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