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

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

L’Orfeo, the world’s first great opera, premieres at Glyndebourne

Roy Westbrook, 14th June

One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi’s opera in an artist's studio,

****1

Darkness without passion: Damiano Michieletto’s Carmen at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 12th June

Despite Michieletto's visual gloom, the evening is redeemed by Myung-whun Chung’s masterful conducting and a cast that brings conviction to a production that rarely trusts the opera’s own dramatic power.

**111

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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.