| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Apr-2011 Lincoln Center: David H Koch Theater | NYC Opera’s ‘Séance’ A Thrilling, Chilling Afternoon |
Goosebumps, gasps of horror, sobs and tears. That's what operagoers will experience at the East Coast premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon presented by New York City Opera. It is an eerie, emotional roller coaster of a show that grips you with the force of demon possession and doesn’t let go. In fact, it captures your rapt attention with such totality, it scarcely allows the audience to breathe until the final curtain descends.
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| 21-Sep-2010 The London Coliseum | Gounod's Faust at the ENO |
For a long period, Charles Gounod's Faust was one of the most frequently performed operas, its popularity due to a lusciously romantic score which contains a series of showstopping set-piece arias, many of which have found their way into popular culture (to give just one example, the Jewel Song in Act III has a starring role in the Tintin story The Castafiore Emerald).
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