Stellar Lost in the Stars at Glimmerglass Festival

By Gale Martin, 06 August 2012

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Reviewed at Alice Busch Opera Theater, Cooperstown on 3 August 2012

Weill, Lost in the Stars

Cape Town Opera

John DeMain, Conductor

Tazewell Thompson, Director

Eric Owens, Stephen Kumalo

Sean Panikkar, Leader

Wynn Harmon, Actor

Brandy Lynn Hawkins, Mezzo-soprano

Amos Nomnabo, Baritone

Makudupanyane Senaoana, Tenor

Chrystal E Williams, Mezzo-soprano

Caleb McLaughlin, Vocals

An entertaining Mandela Trilogy

Andrew Larkin, 14th September

Good singing, incisive production and colourful choreography in The Mandela Trilogy make for many entertaining moments though inherent flaws in libretto and music fail to make it a satisfying, coherent whole.

***11

Cape Town Opera: Mandela Trilogy at Wales Millenium Centre

Verity Quaite, 20th June

Whatever I was expecting from the European première of Mandela Trilogy, a musical tribute to the life of the iconic Nelson Mandela, it certainly wasn’t humour. Yet it is to writer and director Michael Williams’ credit that he has managed to convey what could have been extremely tense and serious subject matter with vibrancy and flair.

***11

Mal was Anderes: Salome in Kapstadt

Freya Apffelstaedt, 17th March

Kapstadt wagt den lohnenden Blick über den Tellerrand des Belcanto und zeigt eine Salome von begeisternder gesanglicher Leistung.

****1

Postales desde Soweto

Juan José Freijo, 10th June

La Ópera de Ciudad de Cabo trae a Madrid una versión sin demasiadas sutilezas pero rebosante de movimiento, energía y pasión.

***11

African American spirituals ring out in world premiere of Jubilee

Erica Miner, 12th October

A world premiere opera about the Fisk Jubilee Singers, the intrepid troupe of African American singers who changed music history.

*****

Handel's Xerxes comes to Glimmerglass

Gregory Moomjy, 18th August

Handel’s Xerxes (1738) was part of this year’s “home and homeland” season at Glimmerglass Festival.

***11

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Gale Martin

Based on the East Coast, Gale is an award-winning writer on the performing arts, books, literature and popular culture. She has just published Don Juan in Hankey and you can read her Operatoonity blog. Her articles have appeared in numerous anthologies.