Red Note Ensemble: The Intoxicating Rose Garden

By Alan Coady, 23 November 2012

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Reviewed at Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh on 22 November 2012

Beamish, The Intoxicating Rose Garden

Anoosh Jahanshahi, Setar

Red Note Ensemble

Michael Popper, Dancer

Laurie Irvine, Video

Glyndebourne’s first Tosca: vocally strong but imperfect

David Karlin, 21st May

Ted Huffman brings some interesting ideas to his first Glyndebourne production. Excellent singing is let down by indifferent physical acting.

***11

An ambitious update of Dialogues of the Carmelites in Prague

Frank Kuznik, 21st May

Barbora Horáková’s new staging of Poulenc’s historic tragedy hits hard at the Prague State Opera, but it never quite reaches its goal.

***11

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

****1

Rossini’s Tancredi as a Sicilian puppet show in Rome

Pia Maltri, 19th May

Clever direction by Emma Dante matches an impressive cast, led by countertenor Carlo Vistoli taking the title role.

*****

Orlando revisited: Olga Neuwirth’s Woolf adaptation comes to Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th May

The German premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando at the Komische Oper cements it as a postmodern grand opéra – for better or for worse.

***11

Anna Netrebko gatecrashes Riccardo Chailly’s La Scala farewell

Laura Servidei, 16th May

Riccardo Chailly’s final new production as artistic director is a celebration of Verdi and of a conductor whose relationship with the Milanese audience has clearly deepened over the years.

*****

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Alan Coady

Alan has taught classical guitar in East Lothian schools since 1982. A graduate in Music of the then Huddersfield Polytechnic, he has a soft spot for the contemporary. He also writes a Musical Blog, where the special interest is the intersection of music/language/science.