Donizetti as you've never seen him before: Pop-Up Opera at Blacks in Soho

By Sarah Reid, 22 April 2013

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Reviewed at Blacks, London on 16 April 2013

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore

Pop-Up Opera

Cliff Zammit Stevens, Nemorino

Clementine Lovell, Adina

Ricardo Panela, Belcore

Tom Kennedy, Dulcamara

Penelope Manser, Giannetta

Egg-crackingly good fun: Pop Up Opera's touring production of Bizet's Le docteur Miracle

Charlotte Valori, 10th March

Pop Up Opera bring their bonkers, busy Bizet to an unusual venue near you!

***11

Werther oozes quiet despair in new Canadian Opera Company staging

John Gilks, 7th May

Excellent performances cannot turn a conventional production of Massenet’s Werther into a dramatic experience for the 21st century.

***11

Rossini's Cenerentola proves great fun in Adelaide

Sandra Bowdler, 7th May

Neil Armfield's production for State Opera South Australia combines a sparkling night of entertainment with first class musical values.

****1

Peter Grimes drops anchor again at The Royal Opera

Christopher Woodley, 5th May

Allan Clayton and Sir Bryn Terfel lead a strong cast in a revival of Deborah Warner's dark staging of Britten's signature work at Covent Garden.

****1

The early flowering of opera: a fragrant L’Orfeo at Schwetzingen

Mengguang Huang, 3rd May

Markus Bothe’s Botticelli-inspired production fuses tableau vivant aesthetics with Jörg Halubek’s surgical musical precision, offering a peerless, vivid tribute to the fragrant dawn of opera.

****1

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Kevin Wells, 1st May

Very few singers can hold an audience in the palm of their hand the way Brenda Rae as Marie does in this rollicking frolic.

****1

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Sarah Reid

Sarah studied Music at Cambridge University, graduating in 2010 and now works for Rhinegold Publishing coordinating their music directories and listings supplements. Sarah is a regular concert- and theatre-goer and appreciates most music – with the exception of heavy metal and Wagner.