| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 1-Nov-2012 Guildhall School Theatre | Martinů has the last laugh at the Guildhall |
 Opera school productions are designed to provide experience for their students and showcase their talents to an audience sprinkled with casting directors. Clearly, the Guildhall School have decided to extract maximum value from their current production by staging not one opera but three, with different casts and even different orchestral musicians. For added interest, they have chosen three short works that were highly successful in their day but have faded from the current repertoire: two romantic operas by Massenet, followed by a surreal 20th century comedy by Martinů.
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| 21-Oct-2011 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | Jette Parker Young Artists: Le Portrait de Manon, Les Nuits d'été |
 SMITH.jpg) The Jette Parker Young Artists double bill of Jules Massenet’s rare one-act opera Le Portrait de Manon (sequel to Manon) and Hector Berlioz’s Les Nuits d’été, featured romance, mystique and sumptuous singing. It has its inelegant features but the latest offering from the Royal Opera House’s emerging artists team brought imagination and wit to the programme, difficult to stage though it must surely have been.
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