Siegfried, Longborough Festival Opera, July 2011
Posted on 25 July 2011… here at Longborough I wouldn’t have wanted Act I to last a minute less, because Daniel Brenna and Colin Judson were riveting as Siegfried and Mime.
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Fidelio, Holland Park Opera, OHP, July 2010
Posted on 10 July 2010Beethoven’s only opera is a plea for justice, an idealistic cri de coeur from a composer who originally wanted to dedicate his third symphony to his hero Napoleon, only to be vastly disappointed when the general declared himself emperor.