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Enescu’s Oedipe – Covent Garden’s Most Important Event this Season?

03/06/201628/05/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Enescu, Oedipe: Soloists, Royal Opera Chorus (chorus master: Genevieve Ellis), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Leo Hussain (conductor). Royal Opera House, London, 23.5.2016. (MB)

OEDIPE by Georges Enesco; Royal Opera House; Covent Garden; London, UK; 17 May 2016; Johan Reuter as Oedipe; Sarah Connolly as Jocaste; Samuel Youn as Créon; John Tomlinson as Tirésias; Sophie Bevan as Antigone; Claudia Huckle as Mérope; Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Sphinx; Alan Oke as Shepherd; Hubert Francis as Laïos; In Sung Sim as Phorbas; Nicolas Courjal as Theban High Prest; Stefan Kocan as Watchman; Samuel Dale Johnson as Thésée; Lauren Fagan as Theban Woman; Leo Hussain - Conductor; Àlex Ollé - Director; Valentina Carrasco - Associate Director; Alfons Flores - Set designer; Lluc Castells - Costume designer; Peter van Praet - Lighting designer; Photo: © ROH Photographer: CLIVE BARDA — *Oedipe* by Georges Enesco at the Royal Opera House
(c) Clive Barda

Opera North’s Ring Launched as full cycle to glorious effect

16/05/202125/05/2016 by John Leeman

United Kingdom Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North/ Richard Farnes (conductor). Leeds Town Hall, Leeds, 23.4.2016 – 21.5.2016. (JL)

Michael Druitt as Wotan, Jo Polheim as Alberich and Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke as Loge. Photo credit: Clive Barda. — Michael Druitt (Wotan), Jo Polheim (Alberich) and
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Loge) (c) Clive Barda.

A Delightful Account of Acis and Galatea

29/05/201624/05/2016 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Handel: Soloists, Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr (director/harpsichord), Milton Court, Barbican, London, 21.5.2016 (CC)

ENO’s Enjoyable Madama Butterfly Poses a Few Problems

23/05/201618/05/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Puccini, Madama Butterfly: Soloists, Orchestra and Chorus (chorus master: James Henshaw) of the English National Opera / Richard Armstrong (conductor), Coliseum, London, 16.5.2016. (MB)

rsz_eno_madam_butterfly_sorrow_with_rena_harms_and_stephanie_windsor-lewis_c_tom_bowles — ENO’s *Madam Butterfly* with Rena Harms (Butterfly) and Stephanie Windsor-Lewis (Suzuki)
(c) Tom Bowles

While Not Perfect WNO Realize Ian Bell’s highly ambitious In Parenthesis Well

23/05/201617/05/2016 by Glyn Pursglove

United Kingdom Bell, In Parenthesis: (World Premiere) Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera / Carlo Rizzi (conductor), Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, 13.5.2016. (GPu)

WNO In Parenthesis. Photo credit - Bill Cooper 925 — WNO’s *In Parenthesis* (c) Bill Cooper

Strong Performance by Psappha of Mark Simpson’s First Opera Pleasure

14/05/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Mark Simpson, Pleasure: Soloists, Psappha, Nicholas Kok (conductor). Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 12.5.2016. (MB)

Pleasure Garrett — Lesley Garrett as Val in *Pleasure* (c) Robert Workman

Keen, Telling Direction from Marchment in Concert Performance of Il tabarro

11/05/201605/05/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Puccini, Il tabarro: Soloists, Chorus (chorus master: William Cole), Melos Sinfonia, Oliver Zeffman (conductor). LSO St Luke’s, London, 1.5.2016. (MB)

No Allowances Needed as Fulham Opera Present Wagner as Wagner

11/05/201603/05/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Wagner: Soloists and Orchestra of Fulham Opera/Ben Woodward (conductor). Burlington Danes Academy, Wood Lane, London. 1.5.2016. (JPr)

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