UK Opera – Page 114 – Seen and Heard International

Astonishing Performance from Sophie Koch in Covent Garden’s Tannhäuser

05/05/201629/04/2016 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Wagner, Tannhäuser: (1875 version): Soloists; Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden/Hartmut Haenchen (conductor), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 26.4.2016. (CC)

peter-seiffert-tannhauser — Peter Seiffert as Tannhäuser (c) Clive Barda

Faustian concept cleverly updated by MacRae and Walsh in The Devil Inside

25/04/201621/04/2016 by Geoff Read

United Kingdom Stuart MacRae, The Devil Inside: Music Theatre Wales / Michael Rafferty (conductor), Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 18.4.2016. (GR)

Nicholas Sharratt (left) Steven Page (right); (C) Bill Cooper.

Despite Good Singing Completed Mozart Opera Buffa Fails to Enthral

21/04/201616/04/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Mozart and Stephen Oliver, L’Oca del Cairo: Soloists, Oriana Choir, London Mozart Players, David Parry (conductor). St John’s, Smith Square, London, 14.3.2016. (MB)

ETO Take Their Atmospheric Don Giovanni Around the Country

21/04/201616/04/2016 by RJones

United Kingdom Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of English Touring Opera / John Andrews (conductor), Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, 14.4.2016. (RJ)

ETO_DonGiovanni090316_photo-®RichardHubertSmith-3964 — ETO’s *Don Giovanni* (c) Richard Hubert Smith

Bellini’s Capulets and Montagues Pop Up in an Essex Barn

19/04/201611/04/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Bellini, I Capuleti e i Montecchi: Soloists of Pop-Up Opera, James Hurley (stage director) & Berrak Dyer (musical director/piano). Anne of Cleves Barn, Great Bardfield, Essex. 9.4.2016. (JPr)

Pop-Up Opera , I Capuleti e I Montecchi (courtesy Richard Lakos) 9 — Alice Privett as Giulietta in Pop-Up Opera’s *I Capuleti e i Montecchi*
(c) Richard Lakos

Katie Mitchell’s Lucia is Sad, Bad, Mad and Dangerous To Know

15/04/201608/04/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor: Soloists, chorus and Royal Opera House Orchestra/ Daniel Oren (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. 7.4.2016. (JPr)

7 April—19 May 2016 Main Stage Diana Damrau and Aleksandra Kurzak lead two world-class casts in Katie Mitchell’s new production of Donizetti’s tragic opera. Music Gaetano Donizetti Libretto Salvadore Cammarano Director Katie Mitchell Designer Vicki Mortimer Lighting designer Jon Clark Associate director Joseph Alford Conductor Daniel Oron Cast: Lucia - Diana Damrau Enrico Ashton - Ludovic Tézier Edgardo - Charles Castronovo Arturo Bucklaw - Taylor Stayton Raimondo Bidebent - Kwangchul Youn Normanno - Peter Hoare Alisa - Rachael Lloyd Co-production with Greek National Opera — *Lucia di Lammermoor* Act II (c) Stephen Cummisky

Fine Performance of Rusalka from Stuart Stratford and Scottish Opera

10/04/201606/04/2016 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Dvořák, Rusalka: Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor), Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 5.4.2016. (SRT)

Anne Sophie Duprels as Rusalka,br/>(c) James Glossop — Anne Sophie Duprels as Rusalka
(c) James Glossop

Barry Takes Musico-Dramatic Sledgehammer to Wilde’s Importance with Hilarious Results

10/04/201604/04/2016 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Gerald Barry, The Importance of Being Earnest: Soloists, Britten Sinfonia, Tim Murray (conductor). Barbican Theatre, 29.3.2016. (MB)

The Importance of Being Earnest 29 March—3 April 2016 Barbican Theatre Gerald Barry’s operatic adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic play is a comic masterpiece. Music Gerald Barry Libretto Gerald Barry Creative: Tim Murray Conductor Director Ramin Gray Set Design Ben Clark (after an idea by Johannes Schutz) Composed by Costume designs Christina Cunningham Lighting Design Franz Peter David Movement Director Leon Baugh Cast: Simon Wilding as Lane/Merriman Benedict Nelson as Algernon Moncreiff Paul Curievici as John Worthing Stephanie Marshall as The Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax Alan Ewing as Lady Bracknell Hilary Summers as Miss Prism - as Cecily Cardew - as The Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D — *The Importance of Being Ernest* (c) ROH/Stephen Cummiskey.

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