| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Jun-2012 Grange Park Opera, Northington | Madama Butterfly at Grange Park |
 If your favourite part of opera is a soaring melody which stays in your head long after the opera is over, they don’t come much better than Un bel dì in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, in which our enraptured heroine sings of the day that her husband’s ship will reappear on the horizon. At Grange Park last night, Claire Rutter did it full justice. She has a strong voice well able to rise above the orchestral swell of Puccini’s soaring highs or sink down to a perfectly controlled pianissimo, all with beautiful warmth of tone.Read full review... | |
| 30-Jun-2011 Grange Park Opera, Northington | “Such dangerous fascinations” Tristan & Isolde at Grange Park Opera |
 History has cast a complex light on Wagner’s music and on Wagner the man. But Tristan & Isolde (Wagner’s enormous vision of erotic love) is an opera that can still resonate today. Nietzsche referred to its “dangerous fascinations”, “spine-tingling and blissful infinity“ and “voluptuousness”. This was Grange Park Opera’s first foray into Wagnerian opera. They are based in an award-winning built opera house tucked away behind the imposing bulk of The Grange, a partially ruined mansion in glorious Hampshire countryside.Read full review... | |
