A sensitive and stylish new production of Phaedra

By Mark Valencia, 16 May 2019

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“Noa Naamat... brings a literate visual palette and a convincing aesthetic to the table”

Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 15 May 2019

Henze, Phaedra

The Royal Opera

Edmund Whitehead, Conductor

Noa Naamat, Director

Jacquelyn Stucker, Aphrodite

Hongni Wu, Phaedra

Michael Mofidian, Minotaur

Patrick Terry, Artemis

Filipe Manu, Hippolyt

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.

Phaedra: Henze's final opera given a sensitive and stylish new production in the Linbury Theatre