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...says the show, titled Beauty in Individualism, from a quote of artist Jenny Saville defying a generic male view of beauty, will include works by other early 20th-century rediscoveries: the gender-defying Gluck...
...Described by Blanchard as “opera in jazz”, this powerful adaptation of Charles M Blow’s painful coming-of-age memoir returns with bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Charles....
...A feeble nude trailing a bouquet is “Flora’s Cloak” by Gluck — bought with funds provided by betting magnate Denise Coates — but absent are Cornelia Parker’s “Thirty Pieces of Silver”, metal crushed and...
...Röschmann brings her inimitable charisma to the title role, but sounds tired and a little worn; Charles Castronovo makes a noble Admète, but seldom gets to produce joyously open vocal lines; Michael Nagy...
...Perhaps Apollo was not at the Paris Hilton, and Charles did not find the Gates of Hades....
...Frédéric Chaslin conducts. ★★★☆☆ Alceste, only the second Gluck opera in the company’s history, is undone by Francisco Negrin’s gloomy production, which underestimates the musical variety Gluck brought...
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