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La Bohème – noirish reframing of Puccini’s classic weepy ○
Glyndebourne, Sussex
Floris Visser’s stylish bohemia recalls Brassaï’s Paris, while Puccini’s score is delivered with crispness and elasticity
Ditching the penguin suits and picnic hampers for affordab…
5 months ago
Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests ○
Royal Opera House, London
Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict d…
Fright at the opera! Royal Opera House's forthcoming woke production of Puccini's Tosca includes EIGHT trigger warnings, including the craziest one yet ○
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So far, so woke . But now comes a trigger warning with a difference: for the venue is now alerting its audiences to - horror of horrors - the curtain-up bell.
6 months ago
As Putin’s bombs fall on Ukraine, the Royal Opera House had a call to make about Anna Netrebko. It made the wrong one | Martin Kettle ○
The Russian soprano says she has condemned the war and has no affinity with this Kremlin. But hosting her still seems unwise
Puccini’s Tosca is high on the list of operas I don’t much care if I never …
11 months ago
‘The palace called and I heard myself saying yes’: how Errollyn Wallen went from Top of the Pops to Master of the King’s Music ○
Written off in her youth, the unstoppable Belize-born musician has overcome indifference, mockery and abuse to become one of Britain’s most acclaimed composers. You have to hang onto your own worth, …
12 months ago
As the far right surges around the globe, what can a new TV series about Mussolini teach us? | Caroline Moorehead ○
Joe Wright’s new drama gives a theatrical take on the dictator’s flaws but there is so much more history viewers need to know
On 3 January 1925, Benito Mussolini delivered the most important speech of…
14 months ago
The week in classical: La bohème; London Contemporary Music festival – review ○
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Royal Opera House; Hackney Church, London
Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska is an unforgettable Mimì in Richard Jones’s ever sumptuous Puccini production. And mischief rules at this year’s LCMF
Oranges…
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