Tag Archives: Elgan Llyr Thomas

Lucia di Lammermoor, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, October 2018

Posted on 26 October 2018

This 2008 production by David Alden expresses the idea that the Ashton family’s dour Calvinist attitudes have arrested the emotional development of their leader Enrico. He plays with his toys at one point, and even embraces his sister Lucia in a lecherous manner. There is much to be said for this psychological approach, but the …

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Ariadne auf Naxos, Opera Holland Park, OHP, July 2018

Posted on 18 July 2018

This remarkable opera by Richard Strauss has become flavour of the month with productions at both Longborough and Opera Holland Park. Its brilliant libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal juxtaposes a young composer’s new opera on the plight of Ariadne with a commedia dell’arte  entertainment, both to be performed for guests at the house of one …

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