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Opera Atelier’s new production of Der Freischütz
Those who are already OA devotees will like this production as something a little bit different but safely within the permanently preset parameters of the OA aesthetic. Others can enjoy the two first acts as competently done escapism, and scratch their heads over the rest, and then the nature of this work, and how it could be credibly staged today.
Revealing Anne Lister: a BBC doc with Sue Perkins
November 15, 2011
Glorious find: comedienne/conductor Sue Perkins explores the life of Anne Lister, a Regency landowner who left a coded diary recording her sexual encounters with "the fairer sex." Interviews with Amanda Vickery, Helena Whitbread, Margaret Reynolds.
On my way to ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’…
December 1, 2010
…I bumped into Marivaux. And I’ll be delayed for a while. Been trying to find the best way to approach Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte for some time now, and lately chatting with Lucia of OpOb about it. All sources I consulted directed me to Marivaux and that particular genre of drama that boomed in the […]
We interrupt this program…
October 10, 2010
… to deliver a short message. After several attempts and cancellations, the Belgrade Pride Parade, only the second ever in the city, took place. It actually did. So. No matter what you read about the rest of the day, my friend Jim Bartley summed it up best: “Successful Pride March in Belgrade today as hundreds […]
What happens in Venice, stays in the canon
August 10, 2010
Alan Bennett‘s latest National Theatre play The Habit of Art spurred more interest in an opera that is already firmly in the operatic canon, Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice. The play was simulcast in movie theatres across the world earlier this year and if you missed it you ought to get a DVD when it […]
Incidental Music
October 28, 2012
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