The curate's night out: the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight

By Charlotte Valori, 24 July 2015

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“Rock Tosca: big, sweaty, loud and brilliant”

Reviewed at Egg, London on 23 July 2015

Horowitz, One Day This Will Be Long Ago

Robertson, China Doll – A Neuropera in Four Seasons

Schouten, Rock Tosca

Salorian, Boys of Paradise

Opera Breve

Ross Gunning, Conductor

Thomas Humphreys, Baritone

Victoria Atkinson, Soprano

Ella Marchment, Director

James Schouten, Baritone

Justine Viani, Soprano

Edward Hughes, Tenor

Timothy Patrick, Bass-baritone

Jack Holton, Baritone

Piran Legg, Bass-baritone

Adam O'Shea, Tenor

Jean-Max Lattemann, Countertenor

Edmund Whitehead, Conductor

Eduardo Mas Bacardit, Tenor

Emily Kyte, Mezzo-soprano

Erlanger's L'Aube rouge a damp squib at Wexford Festival Opera

Andrew Larkin, 29th October

Erlanger's fractured and clichéd opera isn't helped by confused direction, although soprano Andreea Soare is nothing short of magnificent as the heroine.

**111

Sisterhood tenderly explored: Little Women at Opera Holland Park

David Karlin, 22nd July

Composer-librettist Adamo does full justice to Louisa May Alcott's 19th-century bestseller, one of the most widely read works in American literature.

****1

A darkly atmospheric Turn of the Screw from Bury Court Opera

Mark Valencia, 9th March

As the Governess Alison Rose was the ideal suffering soprano, her eyes an imbroglio of psychological disturbances.

****1

An intravenous injection of Piazzolla: María de Buenos Aires at the Vaults

David Karlin, 13th May

Piazzolla's "tango operita" is confusing, weird but full of the unique character of his music, performed superbly by an orchestra which mixes jazz and classical feel.

***11

Gustave Charpentier's Louise at the Buxton Festival

Andrew H. King, 16th July

Gustave Charpentier's Louise, revived and in excellent form at the Buxton Festival.

***11

A sorta fairy tale: Sleepers Awake premieres at Opera Philadelphia

Cameron Kelsall, 22nd April

A new opera by Gregory Spears subverts the Sleeping Beauty trope, with middling results.

**111

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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.

The curate's night out: the Tête-à-Tête Clubnight at Egg, London