| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Oct-2012 St John's Smith Square | Everyman's Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius at St John's Smith Square |
.jpg) Certain images of Edward Elgar appear to be too heavily ingrained in our national consciousness ever to be shaken off. He has now been entombed as an establishment figure, a privilege for which he has the Last Night of the Proms to thank. Even works such as the Enigma Variations and the Cello Concerto that are less obviously redolent of patriotic bombast can be heard as expressive vehicles for Edwardian imperialism.Read full review... | |
| 28-Sep-2012 Leeds Grand Theatre | Don Giovanni successfully launches Opera North's new season |
 Director Alessandro Talevi’s imagination, wit and audacity meant that Don Giovanni, which has just launched Opera North’s new season, was a huge success. The production was enthralling throughout, never dragging or disappointing, even in the second act. It works much better than others I have seen, because the emphasis is placed firmly on the comic rather than the pathetic. The balance is just right.
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| 18-Sep-2012 St John's Smith Square | Bampton Classical Opera revives little-known operas by Philidor and Grétry |
 Bampton Classical Opera is a company dedicated to performing rarely-performed 18th-century operas, and every summer they stage a new production with a cast of young and upcoming singers at their base in Bampton in Oxfordshire. This year’s production was a double-bill of French opéras comiques by Philidor and Grétry, which they brought to London’s St John’s Smith Square last week. The conductor (Andrew Griffiths) and the cast were unchanged from the summer production but in London, the orchestral part was played by Chroma.
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