Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Love and Treachery with Plenty of Laughs in Cavalli’s Jason

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cavalli, Jason: English Touring Opera and the Old Street Band / Joseph McHardy (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 26.10.2013. (RJ)

Catrine Kirkman (Isiphile), Clint van der Linde (Jason), Michal Czerniawski (Delfa), Hannah Pedley (Medea), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Egeus), Peter Aisher (Demus), Piotr Lempa (Orestes), Andrew Slater (Hercules), English Touring Opera // Cavalli, Jason (Giasone). Photo: Richard Hubert Smith
Catrine Kirkman (Isiphile), Clint van der Linde (Jason), Michal Czerniawski (Delfa), Hannah Pedley (Medea), John-Colyn Gyeantey (Egeus), Peter Aisher (Demus), Piotr Lempa (Orestes), Andrew Slater (Hercules), English Touring Opera // Cavalli, Jason (Giasone). Photo: Richard Hubert Smith

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Fun and Intrigue in ETO’s Agrippina

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Handel: Agrippina: English Touring Opera, Old Street Band / Jonathan Peter Kenny (conductor), Festival Theatre, Malvern, 24.10.2013. (RJ)

Agrippina - Handel - English Touring Opera - 8th October 2013 Agrippina - Gillian Webster Claudius - Andrew Slater Ottone - Clint van der Linde Nero - Jake Arditti Lesbo - Luke D Williams Pallante - Nicholas Merryweather Poppea - Paula Sides Narciso - Ru
Paula Sides (Poppea), Clint van der Linde (Ottone), Nicholas Merryweather (Pallante), Andrew Slater (Claudio), Russell Harcourt (Narciso [standing]), Luke D Williams (Lesbo [seated]), Gillian Webster (Agrippina), Jake Arditti (Nerone), English Touring Handel, Agrippina. Photo: Robert Workman

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