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Happy “birth”- day to Wigmore Hall (inasmuch as bricks and mortar are birthed). On the hall’s actual 125th anniversary, it was Lise Davidsen and the equally astonishing collaborative pianist James Baillieu who did the honours: Schubert provided the dots.
‘Honours’ is the operative word: after the interval (free drinks for those that wished), John Gilhooly was presen...
Time as a great healer or gentle eraser is a large part of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. If musing on transience and ageing are prevailing themes, that’s neatly balanced by the light entertainment provided by the parody of social change. As a comedy of manners and meditation on change, both ideas are sharply drawn in this first revival of Bruno Ravello’s Garsington pr...
A work of art a lifetime in the making, this month INseries presents artistic director Timothy Nelson’s The Song of Sakuntala, with music composed by him and texts by Sarojini Naidu Rabindranath Tagore and Vidyapati. Although there are multiple adaptations of the source material, which comes from the beginning of the Mahabarata, Nelson’s production promises ...
Nicolas Joel’s 2016 production of Massenet’s Werther made a welcome return to Tokyo’s New National Theatre for its third revival, seen on 30 May. High expectations surrounded this revival, which featured the significant role debuts of American tenor Charles Castronovo and Japanese mezzo-soprano Aya Wakizono—dream roles for which both had prepared for nearly fifteen y...
Despite its large cast, the drama of La fanciulla del West (1910) is ultimately one of the more intimate of Puccini’s operas, centred on the love triangle between Minnie, owner of the Polka saloon, sheriff Jack Rance, and the bandit he is trying to track down, Dick Johnson. It is not simply a romantic love story since, in Minnie’s acceptance of him, Johnson is redeem...