UK Opera – Page 114 – Seen and Heard International

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.

Heritage Opera’s Atmospheric La bohème Flows Seamlessly

03/04/201625/03/2016 by Michael Cookson

United Kingdom Puccini, La bohème: Heritage Opera / Benjamin Cox (conductor/pianist), Lowther Pavilion, Lytham, Lancashire, 24.3.2016. (MC)

Heritage Opera La boheme — *La bohème* (c) Heritage Opera

When Boris isn’t Godunov – by Jack Buckley

14/08/202024/03/2016 by Jack Buckley

United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov: direct transmission from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London at the Cinema Barberini, Rome, 21.3.2016 with the Chorus (Renato Balsadonna) and Orchestra of the ROH, Conductor Antonio Pappano. (JB)

ROH’s 1869 Boris Godunov Lacks Drama and Epic Grandeur

30/12/202023/03/2016 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Broadcast to the Empire Cinema, Basildon, Essex. 21.3.2016. (JPr)

Bury Court Opera’s Madam Butterfly is Pure Poetry

25/03/201623/03/2016 by Roderic Dunnett

United Kingdom Puccini, Madam Butterfly: Soloists and Chorus or Bury Court Opera with the Southbank Sinfonia / Simon Over (conductor), The Barn at Bury Court, Hampshire. 18.3.2016. (RD)

Mamie Matsuda (standing) as Cio-Cio-San and Ayaka Tanimoto (below) as Suzuki — Mamie Matsuda (standing) as Cio-Cio-San and Ayaka Tanimoto as Suzuki
(c) Robert Workman

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