Tag Archives: Katie Coventry

La Sonnambula, Il re pastore, Buxton Festival, July 2023

Posted on 12 July 2023

This year’s Buxton Festival opened with a look back at the past, in a musical set to works from the 1930s by Ivor Novello which featured the activist and pacifist Vera Brittain, who lived in Buxton during her teenage years. A moving tribute, and very different from Bellini’s La Sonnambula on the second night, and …

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Marriage of Figaro, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, March 2018

Posted on 30 March 2018

This is exactly what the English National Opera should be doing: staging operas in comprehensible productions with a strong cast of mainly British singers. Sadly their bad press in recent years is partly due to productions that say more about the director than the opera, and singers from abroad who do not measure up to …

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