Monthly Archives: September 2009
Posted on 27 September 2009
The jester, named Triboulet in Hugo’s play, becomes Rigoletto in the opera, and is surely one of Verdi’s great creations, sung here by Anthony Michaels-Moore, who played him with enormous sensitivity.
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Posted on 22 September 2009
This is definitely worth a visit to see the eclectic style of choreography, and the dancing of Rojo, McRae, and Franzen.
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Posted on 18 September 2009
This musical work by Ligeti (1923–2006) is related to opera rather in the way a painting by Hieronymus Bosch is related to a landscape.
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Posted on 14 September 2009
This production by Peter Hall of Terence Rattigan’s play about a classics master at boarding school, was beautifully performed.
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Posted on 13 September 2009
Imagine a Christian Taliban in Spain, putting men, women and children in Flanders — all heretics — to the sword.
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Posted on 8 September 2009
This was a concert performance, brilliantly conducted by Mark Elder, and the cast, headed by Elise Gutierrez as Linda, and Stephen Costello as gloriously voiced Carlo, was excellent.
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