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...Chevalier and Wood make a very good case for ENO’s policy of singing opera in English. The performance was conducted with an impressive grip on Verdi’s style by Richard Farnes....
...June 9-July 5, thegrangefestival.co.uk La Gioconda Grange Park Opera, Surrey It should not come as a surprise any more to find international opera stars singing at this opera house in the woods....
...In Macbeth, Verdi depicted stark psychologies with a palette of unprecedented musical shades....
...Paeans to its loveliness have flowed from the pens of Mary Shelley and Stendhal; it has inspired Liszt and Wagner; Verdi wrote La traviata on its shores....
...undeterred, he has used the past few weeks to make a work that responds directly to the Covid-19 crisis, and which will be performed, live, in front of a live audience at Grange Park Opera’s Theatre in the Woods...
...As Renato, Riccardo’s loyal minister turned enemy, Roland Wood’s heavyweight baritone fits the bill nicely....
...Where else would anybody drive through a plan to build a delightful replica of a traditional opera house in a wood in the countryside without any public subsidy?...
...I love listening to classical music at home, and the rediscovery of works by this forgotten composer, who wrote this 150 years before Verdi’s well-known version of the story, is as exciting as his baroque...
...Why The house has a music room with an original Bösendorfer piano, once played by the composers Giuseppe Verdi and Franz Liszt....
...The cast was strong, with Claire Rutter fully in command of Verdi’s notes as the anguished Amelia, Roland Wood a touch stentorian as her betrayed husband Renato, Tereza Gevorgyan a sparky Oscar and Elisabetta...
...Seventy years ago the newly founded Edinburgh International Festival’s inaugural opera was Verdi’s first Shakespearean work — then a rarity in the repertoire....
...Dante’s figurative world is characteristically imaginative, culminating in prickly pears for Birnam Wood that represent burgeoning savagery....
...Verdi’s work, a faithful adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play”, was the very first opera performed at the festival in 1947. “I don’t know how they [the Scots] will take it,” Dante admits....
...As Macbeth, Roland Wood, in a rare American appearance, sounds like Sherrill Milnes in his prime, and Julie Makerov is an incisive Lady. opera-stl.org...
...Giuseppe Verdi has always been my mythical mentor. And rock chicks like Cherry Vanilla, who’ve stuck to their liberal beliefs, their attitude. How physically fit are you?...
...Roland Wood’s voice sounds far from a Verdi baritone as Ford. Agnes Zwierko presents a delightful personality as Mistress Quickly, but could do with more ammunition in her lower notes....
...And Verdi’s gore-spattered masterpiece could have brought out her best....
...Verdi’s characters almost become shadows of themselves in Alden’s powerful, hallucinatory psychodrama. Who is the Duke?...
...Tales from the Vienna Woods is not the slapstick ebullience of Gruber’s famous Frankenstein. This is the opposite of Verdi’s Falstaff, a serious work at the end of a long career of hilarity....
...Outdoor Verdi London’s Royal Opera House hosts a live and free outdoor screening of “La Traviata” at various locations including Canary Wharf, Trafalgar Square, Bristol’s Millennium Square and Wharf Green...
...In its grounds, women stroll arm-in-arm with uniformed officers, a scene that looks like it belongs in a Verdi opera....
...The idea of bringing culture to the people – the mission of the BBC’s first director-general, John Reith – matched Wood’s credo....
...It may not have much to do with Verdi but it generates an eye-boggling exhibition of memorabilia, from deer-stalkers to pillbox hats, wood-panelled smoking rooms to Formica kitchens....
...Tarantino gives the scene a terrifying splendour and plays the “Dies Irae” from Verdi’s Requiem for added effect. It could, at a pinch, be taken from a classic John Ford film....
...In the old days the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts used to run to a weekly plan....
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