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under the balcony

I made my first post-pandemic excursion to the Royal Opera House to the opening night of Deborah Warner’s new production of Wozzeck. I shan’t comment further on the uniformly excellent performances – you can read more by following the links … Continue reading

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Fidelio before the curtain fell

By early March tickets were beginning to appear for events that had originally sold out, as people became anxious about the risk of contagion. One such ticket was a good (and hence expensive) one for Fidelio at the Royal Opera … Continue reading

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no more anachronistic absinthe

I haven’t been to the Royal Opera for a while, and took the opportunity to break my return journey from Cambridge to catch the opening night of the revival of their production of Andrea Chénier. The closing days of the … Continue reading

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Prom 2: Bryn sings Boris

After a busy day of 3 Choirs rehearsal at Gloucester Cathedral I leapt on a train to London and we went to hear Boris Godunov, with pretty much the same cast as was in the cinema relay of the ROH … Continue reading

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the original Boris

We went to the cinecast of the ROH’s Boris Godunov. As I go to more of these, I realise there is a dedicated audience that I keep seeing at them, several of whom are known to me through other musical … Continue reading

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♥ Olga and Onegin are now friends

Wouldn’t the plot of Eugene Onegin work well as a series of status updates? We went to see it at the Royal Opera House. This particular production was on its second outing here and had apparently been toned down a … Continue reading

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More luxury casting at the ROH

Others in the family went to see Le Nozze di Figaro at the Royal Opera House, and came back with good reports. The only slight reservation was about the orchestra being a little lacking in colour compared with the singing, … Continue reading

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an extraordinary corset

Cinecasts of opera performances are popular these days, but I’ve never been to one until last week, when we went to Andrea Chénier, beamed from the Royal Opera House to our local Odeon. I admit to having a soft spot … Continue reading

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Violetta’s back-story

One of the most poignant moments in the current (actually 20-year-old) Royal Opera House production of La Traviata comes even before the curtain rises; during the overture, images of 19th-century poverty-stricken girls are projected on it, to suggest Violetta’s origins … Continue reading

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A family night out at the opera

#enowozzeck In fact we didn’t all go to the same opera. My husband and daughter went to Don Carlos at Covent Garden (she will write about this in her own blog in due course), and when I realised that the … Continue reading

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