Fly away on wings of wind: Novaya Opera’s Prince Igor takes wing at the Coliseum

By Mark Pullinger, 02 April 2014

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“ How glorious to hear a Russian chorus in full cry, basses plumbing the subterranean depths”

Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 1 April 2014

Borodin, Prince Igor

Novaya Opera

Jan Latham-Koenig, Conductor

Yuri Alexandrov, Director

Vyacheslav Okunev, Set Designer

Elena Popovskaya, Yaroslavna

Agunda Kulaeva, Konchakovna

Aleksey Tatarintsev, Vladimir Igorevich

Sergey Artamonov, Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod-Seversky

Evgeny Stavinsky, Galitsky

Vladimir Kudashev, Konchak

In Moscow, a rare outing for Bellini’s Il pirata

Edward Sava-Segal, 23rd January

Tenor Dmitry Korchak was the pick of the soloists in this concert performance by Novaya Opera.

***11

Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival

Laura Servidei, 12th April

Visually enchanting and meticulously staged, this centenary revival confirms Livermore's production as a modern classic.

****1

Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall

Mark Pullinger, 10th April

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome for Regents Opera at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall.

****1

Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci

Dominic Lowe, 10th April

Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera’s contemporary take on Leoncavallo’s masterpiece ticks all the boxes.

****1

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

Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

Kurt Gottschalk, 6th April

At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace.

*****

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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.