I cannot recall seeing a production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly more attractive visually than that offered at Nevill Holt, the Leicestershire outpost —itself ...
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Reviews
Thursday, 24. June 2010
Music & Vision
The background to Stephen Medcalf's new production of Richard Strauss' Capriccio (seen Sunday 20 June 2010) at Grange Park Opera is the fact that it was premièred in ...
Wednesday, 23. June 2010
The Oxford Times
The Prince is at death’s door. Lying in bed with a drip feeding into his arm, he’s surrounded by white-coated doctors, whose expressions make it plain that the end is ...
Wednesday, 23. June 2010
Music & Vision
As soon as his opera The Love of Three Oranges was premièred (in
Chicago in 1921), Prokofiev had to field questions as to what the piece
was about and whether ...
Sunday, 20. June 2010
The Independent on Sunday
Petit Trianon to Glyndebourne’s Versailles, Grange Park Opera is more attuned to the times than it might appear.
Instead of sponsoring roles for next season’s ...
Sunday, 20. June 2010
The Independent on Sunday
Capriccio is arguably weaker than The Love for Three Oranges. Strauss’s sublime opening string sextet and exquisite closing monologue frame a rambling, repetitive ...
Sunday, 20. June 2010
The Observer
He's been startling audiences for at least two decades, since his 1988 scratch'n'sniff The Love for Three Oranges at English National Opera. Prokofiev's brittle and ...
Friday, 18. June 2010
Guardian Unlimited
For reasons not entirely clear, Grange Park Opera opts to perform Prokofiev's commedia dell'arte-inspired theatrical extravaganza in the French translation used at its ...
Thursday, 17. June 2010
Financial Times
Prokofiev’s comic opera is made for summer festival viewing.
Was it a Tardis or only a common-or-garden police box? The zany fantasy of The Love for Three ...
Sunday, 13. June 2010
The Sunday Times
Claire Rutter shines in Grange Park’s production of Tosca reviewed by Hugh Canning.
The summer opera seasons in delightful — if unquestionably elitist — ...
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