Iphegénie en Tauride, Metropolitan Opera live cinema relay, February 2011
Posted on 27 February 2011This was Gluck’s penultimate opera, and the purity of its music endows the story with enormous clarity.
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The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro), Opera Australia, Sydney Opera House, July 2010
Posted on 31 July 2010Teddy Tahu Rhodes was particularly good as a strongly voiced yet surprisingly vulnerable Figaro. So often this character comes over as all too knowing, never seriously fearing for the loss of Susanna’s love, but here …
Madama Butterfly, live relay, Metropolitan Opera, New York, March 2009
Posted on 8 March 2009This production by the late Anthony Minghella — perhaps the best Butterfly I’ve ever seen … portrayed the child as a puppet, which worked extremely well …
Salome, in a live cinema screening from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Oct 2008
Posted on 31 December 2008Karita Mattila gave an excellent performance of the title role, and Juha Uusitalo was superb as John the Baptist, drawing deep power from mysterious sources.