by Neal | 21 Feb 2013 | Slider, Theatre
A week of four operas came to a close last night with Mozart’s final opera La Clemenza di Tito. This is a a delve into the Roman world, which gladly had received an update in setting from people wandering around in togas!I had read a number of reviews of this...
by Neal | 17 Feb 2013 | Slider, Theatre
A Sunday afternoon treat today with a double-bill of operas. Both of these I’d never listened to or seen so they were a bit of a mystery. La Voix Humaine by Poulenc was first performed in 1959 and is a 40 minute ‘tragedy lyrique’ for a single voice....
by Neal | 16 Feb 2013 | Slider, Theatre
After a pretty long break since the autumn, we had the first of four operas in a week last Wednesday; a new production of Verdi’s Otello. Based on Shakepeare’s play (not unusual for Verdi) it was set in a naval base in the 40s-50s. The set really worked!...
by Neal | 20 Jul 2012 | Slider, Theatre
Last night we went to our annual production by the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, “Murder on the Nile”. Dame Agatha wrote the scripts for her plays and often altered books to suit the stage, often with subtle changes to the plot. “Murder on the...
by Neal | 17 Jun 2012 | Music, Slider, Theatre
We had been waiting a year with great anticipation since the first of the Ring Cycle operas, Das Rheingold, last year at Leeds Town Hall. The success of last year’s ‘preliminary evening’ to the three main operas, as Richard Mantle the Director...
by Neal | 11 Feb 2012 | Music, Theatre
Giulio Cesare is our first Handel opera we’ve seen, and it won’t be our last. This review could be very short; Handel is brilliant!!The synopsis courtesy of Opera North goes as follows:Egypt, ancient times. Cleopatra uses all her considerable wiles to...
