Opera Naked

By Charlotte Valori, 21 October 2013

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Reviewed at St James Theatre, London on 18 October 2013

Unknown, Unknown programme - opera

Nadine Mortimer-Smith, Soprano

Ciara Hendrick, Mezzo-soprano

Philip Spendley, Bass

Robert Bottriell, Piano

Alex Tsilogiannis, Tenor

Haymarket Opera treats Chicago to compelling Baroque brotherly love

No’a L. bat Miri, 21st June

In a rare performance of Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, Jory Vinikour leads a small ensemble to the heights of religious art music.

*****

Three Peters for the price of one: Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann

Elena Luporini, 20th June

Martin G Berger's new production of Zar und Zimmermann eases the Deutsche Oper Berlin into the summer break, with mixed results.

***11

Grange Park Opera's Ring cycle opens with an excellent Rheingold

Dominic Lowe, 20th June

Launching that most ambitious of endeavours, a Ring cycle, Grange Park Opera's production of Das Rheingold proves a real achievement, led by the superb Alberich of David Stout.

****1

The ghost of Maria Callas: Greek National Opera’s Medea at Epidaurus

Anna Bogdanova, 20th June

To rebuild Maria Callas’s 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus, Greek National Opera withstands it, but then comes the final act...

****1

10 Days in a Madhouse receives Canadian premiere

John Gilks, 16th June

10 Days in a Madhouse is a musically and dramatically excellent but disturbing insight into conditions in a women’s asylum brought to life in Toronto by an excellent production.

****1

Galați Cenerentola lights up the Bucharest stage

Peter Quantrill, 15th June

First class young voices and bewitchingly stylised designs shine through the murk at the Bucharest Opera Festival.

****1

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Baring all: joyous abandon from Opera Naked at the St James Theatre