| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-Jun-2012 Royal Northern College of Music | Opera Seria's debut production of Anna Bolena: A tremendous achievement |
 Lust, betrayal, beheadings. The words appeared prominently in the publicity for Opera Seria’s debut production of Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, bringing Horrible Histories fleetingly to mind, but they do sum up the plot of one of the composer’s greatest works rather well. Henry VIII is intent on freeing himself from Anne Boleyn, his second wife, and has Jane Seymour, her lady-in-waiting, lined up to be his third. His plan is to find ‘evidence’ that Anne is adulterous by inviting her first love, Lord Richard Percy, back to England from exile.Read full review... | |
| 17-Nov-2010 University of Leeds: Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall | UK premiere of Taneyev's Oresteia |
| A cold and rainy Wednesday evening in Leeds is not usually the setting for lust, betrayal, and murder. I found myself at the Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall at the University of Leeds ready to experience the UK premiere of Act I of Sergey Taneyev’s masterpiece Oresteia, first performed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895. It is a three act musical trilogy that brings to life Aeschylus’s Greek tragedy concerning the return of Agamemnon from the Trojan War, his murder, and his son Orestes’s retribution on Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
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