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23 October 2019
The cast, led by the magnificent Bryn Terfel in the title role, all do their jobs wonderfully. Terfel himself acts and sings beautifully, while also giving us an unusually sympathetic portrayal of the abject misery of the post-marital misery of Pasquale.
Read the original review4 October 2019
Dancers aside, this has a remarkably small cast for an opera with only Sarah Tynan as Eurydice and Soraya Mafi as Love (Gluck's version of Cupid) having significant roles alongside Alice Coote which they performed excellently.
Read the original review7 July 2019
DAVID McVicar's sumptuous production of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro for the Royal Opera was first seen in 2006 but still seems as fresh as ever, with the current production having a surprising feature that introduces yet another reason to enjoy this glorious opera, even if you have seen this production before.
Read the original review17 January 2019
Great music, great singing, great acting: altogether a terrific production.
Read the original review20 December 2018
The star of the show, however, is Gerhard Siegel as the witch, whose gingerbread house is designed to capture the attention of the adult audience by looking like something from Hitchcock's Psycho, with a huge knife stabbing through its roof.
Read the original review4 December 2018
Carmens that very few singers are familiar with it, but Arquez took the role several times in the previous production and was able to step in. American tenor Brian Jagde gave a convincing performance as Don Jose and Russian bass Alexander Vinogradov was a splendid bullfighter/lover.
Read the original review11 October 2018
To add to all the glorious singing, the conductor Antonio Pappano was perhaps the hardest working of all, conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra with commendable vigour and a true understanding of the music, while the director Keith Warner and set designer Stefanos Lazaridis combined to create an impression as strong as the music but never going too far.
Read the original review29 June 2018
The current production at Covent Garden is a first revival of the version Richard Jones directed last autumn and it benefits from several small changes, which combat the inconsistencies of the earlier version, and by having the strongest cast I have seen in this opera.
Read the original review22 January 2018
It may lack the sensational quality of the dream team, but still makes for a superb evening.
Read the original review16 October 2017
Grand opera does not come much grander than this.
Read the original review15 September 2017
A splendid revival of a great production of a wonderful opera.
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