Review — The Tsarina’s Slippers, Royal Opera, November 2009
Posted on 21 November 2009This sparkling production by Francesca Zambello has lovely set designs … includes serious ballet work, some electrifying Cossack dances and acrobatics …
Mainly Opera and Ballet
This sparkling production by Francesca Zambello has lovely set designs … includes serious ballet work, some electrifying Cossack dances and acrobatics …
…this was a revelation, and I congratulate Glyndebourne for putting it on.
Valery Gergiev unfolded the music beautifully … never rushing, but never flagging
It also featured others with a strong Glyndebourne connection, such as Gerald Finley, Sarah Connolly, Emma Bell, and Kate Royal, who were all in the Glyndebourne chorus at one time, along with such luminaries as Thomas Allen, Sergei Leiferkus, Felicity Lott, and Anne Sofie von Otter.