Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Royal Opera, November 2008
Posted on 30 November 2008Olympia was sung and acted to perfection by Ekaterina Lekhina … and I shall always remember this as the highlight of the evening.
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Dr. Atomic, live cinema screening from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Nov 2008
Posted on 28 November 2008The music by John Adams is wonderful, but the libretto by Peter Sellars falls far short of expressing the potential drama of this story. As a piece of theatre this opera fails …
Tamerlano, live cinema screening from Madrid, October 2008
Posted on 28 November 2008Placido Domingo was wonderful as Bajazet, full of emotion and determination, and Monica Bacelli was superb as Tamerlano, looking and acting the part in the way Handel surely intended.