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Londres, 14/12/2012
The Royal Road to Recovery
The Royal Opera House's 2011-12 season began in splendour, finished in triumph but suffered painfully from a drab, unimaginative and cancellation-riddled middle. For many London opera-goers, it appear... [...]
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Londres, 06/07/2012
Cross-dressing and double-crossing
The Royal Opera House’s current season has been marketed as a celebratory Olympic event, with a series of operatic cycles cunningly planned to time with the festivities this summer. In practise, howev... [...]
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London, 05/06/2012
High Dives and Belly-Flops
After nearly six months without a new production, two arrived at once at the Royal Opera House. Strictly speaking, neither of these shows were exactly premieres (both having been staged previously at... [...]
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London, 23/05/2012
Mozartiana
At the centre of the Royal Opera House’s season this year is a set of operatic cycles inspired by the Olympic rings. Beginning with the new production of Il Trittico and climaxing with the first re... [...]
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Londres, 21/12/2011
Deadly Bargains
The Royal Opera House continued its winning streak this Autumn with a superb revival of Faust. In David McVicar’s kitsch production, the action of the drama is relocated to Gounod’s Paris and the oper... [...]
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London, 13/10/2011
A Death in the Family
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Giacomo Puccini, Il trittico. Richard Jones, director. Il tabarro. Ultz, set designs. Nicky Gillibrand, costume designs. D. M. Wood, lighting design. Sarah Fahie,... [...]
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London, 26/08/2011
Trouble at Sea
Madama Butterfly is an opera that always elicits strong feelings. For every observer who condemns Pinkerton as a heartless exploiter, another will mention Butterfly's sadistic cruelty in committing su... [...]
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London, 25/08/2011
A Tosca For Our Times
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Giacomo Puccini, Tosca. Jonathan Kent, director. Duncan Macfarland, revival director. Oaul Brown, designs. Mark Henderson, lighting designs. Lukas Jakobski (Cesar... [...]
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London, 05/08/2011
Royal Wedding Fever
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The Tsar’s Bride. Nicolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, music. Paul Curran, director. Kevin Knight, set and costume design. David Martin Jacques, lighting design.... [...]
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