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...Christopher Alden did a lovely job with it in just such a theatre, in a production that travelled from Glimmerglass to the New York City Opera to San Francisco. More recently R.B....
...“Turning away foreign students would do enormous damage to the US economy,” said Edward Alden, an immigration expert at the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank....
...Christopher Alden co-wrote the compressed “text adaptation” and worked with a constrained budget in the 200-seat LUMA Theatre....
...Christopher Alden’s production of Partenope for English National Opera was new in 2008, when it won an Olivier Award....
...In Solo he plays Beckett, a criminal and mentor of sorts to Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han Solo, with Donald Glover starring as the debonair smuggler Lando Calrissian....
...“My favourite Midsummer was the Christopher Alden production set in a school, when I was a pervy headmaster: it made it all sound so dark.”...
...Christopher Alden’s production hails from Opera North but three of the four principal singers come from the US....
...That is the aspect of the story that Christopher Alden’s production, new to English National Opera, makes an obsession....
...It would have made a good starting point for a post-performance discussion of Christopher Alden’s staging at English National Opera....
...This month a new production of Die Fledermaus, directed by Christopher Alden, and first seen at the Canadian Opera Company last year, opens at English National Opera this month....
...The mastermind behind the foolishness was Christopher Alden, a director usually capable of effective cleverness....
...The central force had to be the theatrical iconoclast Christopher Alden, who wilfully turned Mozart’s comedy of Eros into a darkly surreal, often raunchy nightmare....
...It also asked Christopher Alden, a director renowned for exploding the conventions of 19th-century opera, to make modern sense of the plot. The result is an unlikely success....
...English National Opera’s Dream, directed by Christopher Alden and designed by Charles Edwards and Sue Willmington, is an adult dream about school days – a bad dream, littered with abuse, bullying and buggery...
...I think James Lee Burke is the Tennessee Williams of the American Southern cops ’n’ robbers epic and I used to think Christopher Brookmyre served the same purpose for the postmodern Scottish suspense novel...
...The City Opera mustered a brilliant production, staged with an enlightened fusion of abstraction and realism by Christopher Alden, designed with spare bravado by Andrew Lieberman and conducted with telling...
...Monday’s performance was dedicated to the late Sir Charles Mackerras, who introduced this work to London in the 1960s and conducted Christopher Alden’s production at its 2006 debut....
...Christopher Alden, an elderly enfant terrible among operatic iconoclasts, always toys with brilliant inventions. Some of them relate to the work at hand....
...For his debut with the company, Christopher Alden directs his revised 2002 staging for Opera North, a production that received mixed reviews on its first outing....
...Christopher Alden brings a new production of Don Giovanni, with Daniel Okulitch making his City Opera debut....
...What they prove, with the conductor Christian Curnyn and stage director Christopher Alden, is that while Partenope may not be one of Handel’s great operas, it is brilliantly varied and entertaining....
...Christopher Alden directs this “unsentimental and daring” production of Monteverdi’s work, in collaboration with Britain’s Opera North and Glimmerglass Opera in America....
...Christopher Alden’s sparse production, designed by Andrew Cavanaugh Holland, reflected smart stylisation....
...There is an answer both to militant atheists such as Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, and to fundamentalists prepared to sacrifice life, both their own and others, to a creed....
...Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo appears at Glimmerglass in a co-production with the UK’s Opera North and Norwegian Opera by Christopher Alden that drew a mixed reception at its Leeds debut in February....
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