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Strong and stylish: Handel's Ottone from English Touring Opera

By Charlotte Valori, 29 October 2014
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“Conway directs with sensitive skill, picking out the raw human feelings and tortured family dynamics”
Reviewed at West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge on 24 October 2014
Programme
Handel, Ottone, re di Germania
Performers
English Touring Opera
Jonathan Peter Kenny, Conductor
James Conway, Director
Clint van der Linde, Ottone
Gillian Webster, Gismonda
Louise Kemény, Teofane
Grant Doyle, Emireno
Andrew Radley, Adelberto
Rosie Aldridge, Matilda
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Charlotte Valori
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.