Tag Archives: Mark-Anthony Turnage

Festen, Royal Opera, February 2025

Posted on 14 February 2025

This new work by Mark Anthony Turnage is an operatic adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg’s claustrophobic family drama that unfolds over the course of a single evening. The title means celebration, in this case of the 60th birthday of Helge, paterfamilias and sexual abuser — see my review in The Article.

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Wheeldon Triple: After the Rain/ Strapless/ Within the Golden Hour, Royal Ballet, February 2016

Posted on 13 February 2016

This was the first outing at Covent Garden for each of these three ballets, and for Christopher Wheeldon’s new narrative work Strapless a world premiere, framed here by the two abstract pieces. The first, After the Rain is a lovely ballet in two sections to music by Arvo Pärt, premiered by the New York City …

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