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To Paradise and back: a thrilling Le Roi de Lahore from Chelsea Opera Group

By Mark Pullinger, 02 March 2015
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“Balsadonna and the COG orchestra threw the kitchen sink at the score”
Reviewed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 1 March 2015
Programme
Massenet, Le Roi de Lahore
Performers
Chelsea Opera Group
Renato Balsadonna, Conductor
Anush Hovhannisyan, Sitâ
Justina Gringytė, Kaled
Michael Spyres, Alim
Joshua Bloom, A chief, Indra
William Dazeley, Scindia
Jihoon Kim, Timour
Chelsea Opera Group Orchestra
Chelsea Opera Group Chorus
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.