Robert Carsen's legendary Dream returns to Aix

By Mark Valencia, 06 July 2015

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“Sandrine Piau, sleek and slinky, is in irresistible voice as Tytania”

Reviewed at Théâtre de l'Archevêché, Aix-en-Provence on 4 July 2015

Britten, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Kazushi Ono, Conductor

Robert Carsen, Director

Michael Levine, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Sandrine Piau, Tytania

Lawrence Zazzo, Oberon

Miltos Yerolemou, Puck

Scott Conner, Theseus

Allyson McHardy, Hippolyta

Ru Charlesworth, Lysander

John Chest, Demetrius

Elizabeth DeShong, Hermia

Layla Claire, Helena

Brindley Sherratt, Bottom

Henry Waddington, Quince

Michael Slattery, Flute

Christopher Gillett, Snout

Brian Bannatyne-Scott, Snug

Simon Butteriss, Starveling

Sir Matthew Bourne, Choreography

Trinity Boys Choir

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

A sensational Kátya Kabanová in Brno shows Janáček at his very best

Dominic Lowe, 3rd March

A revival of Robert Carsen's production at the Janáček Festival Preview benefits from an excellent cast and exemplary playing from the house ensemble.

*****

The game of love: Robert Carsen’s new Così fan tutte at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 8th November

Alexander Soddy leads a great cast in a clever, supremely entertaining new production in Milan.

****1

Canadian Opera's Orfeo returns elegant, restrained and very satisfying

John Gilks, 9th October

The restrained beauty of Robert Carsen’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice is matched by musical elegance in its revival current revival at the Four Seasons Centre.

*****

Eugene Onegin revival fails to find the magic spark in Toronto

John Gilks, 2nd May

Robert Carsen’s 1997 production of Eugene Onegin has aged remarkably well but the latest Canadian Opera Company revival of it doesn’t quite recapture its magic.

***11

To the Moon and back: Janáček’s Mr Brouček visits Berlin

Elena Luporini, 16th March

Robert Carsen's new production of Janáček’s The Excursions of Mr Brouček for the Staatsoper Unter den Linden scores a well-deserved success thanks to a stellar – or rather, lunar – conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

*****

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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.

Robert Carsen's legendary production returns to its birthplace with a Dream cast