Heart of Darkness | Royal Opera House

By Katy S. Austin, 08 November 2011

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 4 November 2011

O'Regan, Heart of Darkness

Opera East

Oliver Gooch, Conductor

Edward Dick, Director

Alan Oke, Marlow

Morten Lassenius Kramp, Kurtz

Gweneth-Ann Rand, Woman of the River / Fiancee

Jaewoo Kim, Harlequin

Donald Maxwell, Doctor / Boilerman

Njabulo Madlala, Company Director (Thames Boat)

Sipho Fubesi, Manager / Secretary

Paul Hopwood, Chief Accountant / Helmsman

A magnificent Tosca from Welsh National Opera at the Mayflower

David Truslove, 3rd October

WNO imports Edward Dick’s exceptionally fine production, which benefits from from superb casting and outstanding performances led by Natalya Romaniw.

*****

Opera North revives its taut, terrific Tosca

Mark Valencia, 21st January

The director Edward Dick and his designer, Tom Scutt, alternate between realistic and expressionistic images in their creation of grim spectacle.

****1

Crowd-pleasing, yet provocative: Opera North's new Carmen

Richard Wilcocks, 2nd October

Bizet's Carmen at Leeds Grand Theatre, directed by Edward Dick and conducted by Garry Walker, provides thought-provoking modern resonances as well as an uplifting, tune-filled experience.

****1

A lovely, lurid Tosca from Opera North

Richard Wilcocks, 16th September

Edward Dick directs a Tosca full of contemporary references with Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre, Puccini's score conducted by Antony Hermus.

****1

A real feast: Opera North's Hansel and Gretel

Richard Wilcocks, 2nd February

Opera North's Hansel and Gretel at the Grand Theatre Leeds, directed by Edward Dick, is witty and perceptive, with some insights provide by Freudian psychanalysis

****1

Maometto Secondo triumphantly captures Garsington

David Karlin, 10th June

A great number of works from the bel canto era and before have not found their way into the current operatic repertoire, generally for good reason: many are flawed, dated or just not particularly distinguished. Garsington Opera have just proved to us that Rossini’s Maometto Secondo is not one of those.

*****

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Katy S. Austin

Katy sings soprano, plays violin, cycles about and listens to music. She's a graduate of both Bristol and City Universities and has been known to write libretti.