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

Diamonds and steel: Anna Pirozzi rules in La Scala’s Turandot revival

Laura Servidei, 12th April

Visually enchanting and meticulously staged, this centenary revival confirms Livermore's production as a modern classic.

****1

Regents Opera’s Salome lands a knockout punch at York Hall

Mark Pullinger, 10th April

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome for Regents Opera at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall.

****1

Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci

Dominic Lowe, 10th April

Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera’s contemporary take on Leoncavallo’s masterpiece ticks all the boxes.

****1

Handel’s Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno returns to Rome

Pia Maltri, 7th April

Robert Carsen’s staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707.

****1

Innocence: Saariaho’s final opera receives New York premiere

Kurt Gottschalk, 6th April

At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace.

*****

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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.