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Entertaining but short of enchanting: Rimsky's The Golden Cockerel at English Touring Opera

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“impressively vivacious but erring on the side of frantic”
Reviewed at Hackney Empire, London on 5 March 2022
Rimsky-Korsakov, Le Coq d'or (The Golden Cockerel) (Sung in English)
Gerry Cornelius, Conductor
James Conway, Director
Neil Irish, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Rory Beaton, Lighting Designer
English Touring Opera Orchestra
English Touring Opera Chorus
Grant Doyle, Tsar Dodon
Paula Sides, Queen of Shemakha
Robert Lewis, Astrologer
Thomas Elwin, Prince Guidon
Jerome Knox, Prince Afron
Edward Hawkins, General Polkan
Amy J Payne, Amelfa
Alys Mererid Roberts, Golden Cockerel
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