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Bologna's Teatro Comunale scores a slam dunk with Britten's Peter Grimes

By James Imam, 22 May 2017
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“Mark S. Doss was a robust Balstrode armed with a strapping voice and sparkling diction”
Reviewed at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Bologna on 18 May 2017
Programme
Britten, Peter Grimes
Performers
Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Juraj Valčuha, Conductor
Cesare Lievi, Director
Csaba Antal, Set Designer
Marina Luxardo, Costume Designer
Ian Storey, Peter Grimes
Charlotte-Anne Shipley, Ellen Orford
Kamelia Kader, Mrs Sedley
Gabriella Sborgi, Auntie
Paolo Antognetti, Bob Boles
Saverio Bambi, Rev Horace Adams
Mark S Doss, Captain Balstrode
Luca Gallo, Hobson
Maurizio Leoni, Ned Keene
John Molloy, Swallow
Coro di Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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James Imam
James Imam
James Imam is an arts journalist writing for publications including The Financial Times, The Times, Musical America and Opera magazine. He grew up in Manchester, read anthropology at Cambridge and has since lived in Milan. As a once-aspiring countertenor he has an abiding interest in Baroque music.