Jim Pritchard

‘The Play’s the Thing’: Shakespeare and Mendelssohn Combine to Excellent Effect

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2015 – William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn: Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Anna Sideris (soprano), Catherine Backhouse (mezzo-soprano), Chorus and Orchestra of Garsington Opera / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 22.7.2015 (JPr)

Garsington Opera RSC Ross Armstrong Joan Iyiola Forbes Masson Simon Manyonda Hedydo Dylan Marty Cruickshank credit Mark Douet
Ross Armstrong,  Joan Iyiola,  Forbes Masson  Simon Manyonda, Hedydo Dylan, and Marty Cruickshank (c) Mark Douet

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Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal:

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  United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance – Betrothal and Betrayal: Soloists, Welsh National Opera Orchestra / Paul Wynne Griffiths, Michele Gamba & Jonathan Santagada (conductors),  Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London 18.7.2015 (JPr)

JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS; Betrothal and Betrayal; Royal Opera House; Covent Garden; London,UK; 17 July 2015; Adriana Lecouvreur, excerpts from Act 1: Left to right: LAUREN FAGAN as Mlle Jouvenot; RACHEL KEL;LY as Mlle Dangeville; YURIY YURCHUK as Michonnet; JAMES PLATT as Quinault;; LUIS GOMES as Poisson; Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA
JETTE PARKER YOUNG ARTISTS;
Betrothal and Betrayal;
Royal Opera House;
Covent Garden;

Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA

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Covent Garden’s controversial Guillaume Tell has several good points  

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Rossini, Guillaume Tell: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Jonathan Haswell) to the Empire Cinemas, Basildon, Essex, 5.7.2015. (JPr)

Gerald Finley as William Tell at end the of Act II pic credit ROH and Clive Barda
Gerald Finley as William Tell at end the of Act II © Clive Barda

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Sensationalist Carmen on Minimalist Set from ENO

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Bizet, Carmen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English National Opera / Sir Richard Armstrong (conductor). Live relay to cinemas from the London Coliseum, directed by Andy Morahan, seen at Empire Cinemas, Basildon, Essex, 1.7.2015. (JPr)

‘Carmen Act II pic credit ENO & Alistair Muir.

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