Opera Review: Romeo et Juliette, The Abduction and La Bohème
TWO WHITE coffins surrounded by black-clad mourners during the overture of Patrick Mason’s staging of Romeo Et Juliette reveal what we already know of the young lovers’ fate. The suitably dramatic scene updates the tale from Renaissance Italy to the Fascist 1930s where the feuding Veronese families are blackshirt Capulets and anarchic Montagues. Daily Express […]
Opera review: La Bohème at the Royal Opera House
GIVEN the power of music to elicit strong emotions, it is hardly surprising that so many opera have tear-jerking scenes, but nothing jerks my tears so consistently as Puccini’s La Bohème. Poor Mimi spends the whole opera dying of tuberculosis, but the contrast between the joie de vivre of the first half and the pathetic […]
The Greatest Showman: Who plays opera singer Jenny Lind? Does she really sing in the film?
THE Greatest Showman has proved to have some staying power at the US box office, despite being panned by critics. It features a stellar cast, but who plays the opera singer Jenny Lind in the film and is she really singing in the movie? Daily Express :: Films Feed
Forgotten Liszt opera to be performed for first time after 170 years
AN abandoned opera by Franz Liszt which has lain largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries will be given its world premiere this summer. Daily Express :: Music Feed
Opera: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk English National Opera
CHOOSING a 20th century Russian composer to kick off its 2015-16 season may seem strange for an opera house that is trying to balance its books and attract a wider audience. Daily Express :: Music Feed