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The Elixir d’Amore at Anglo-Italian National Opera
Quite an evening. One of those that seemed to spell disaster at the beginning, but turned out to be a triumph. It started with the little slip of paper in the programme. “John Tessier is unable to...
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The Makropoulos Case, ENO
Wow. I mean, blimey, wow. This was quite an evening. Having previously watched a bit of The Makropoulos Case on DVD (the Glyndebourne set with Anja Silja), I had anticipated an engaging but rather...
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The Rose-Bearer clearly wasn’t travelling by public transport in London
So last night was Der Rosenkavalier at ENO – from what I remember of it after the rather tedious journey home. In fact the rather wonderful evening was ‘book-ended’ by frustrations, latterly the travel...
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Death in Venice
ENO Death in Venice – (c) ENO/Hugo Glendinning – click to jump to their Flickr page for more In Britten centenary year, when better to encounter his Death in Venice for the first time? Especially in so...
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Masterful Mastersingers
Woodcut of Nuremberg from the Nuremberg Chronicle [Wikimedia Commons Public Domain]Anyone coming afresh to the superlative performance of The Mastersingers of Nuremberg at the Coliseum last night would...
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