Performing arts: Opera in the Pub: a love story sung over several schooners
The newly refurbished Harold Park Hotel sets the stage for the return of Opera in the pub next month.
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The newly refurbished Harold Park Hotel sets the stage for the return of Opera in the pub next month.
Madama butterfly
This new production of Verdi’s 1853 opera Il Trovatore directed by Davide Livermore had all the bells and whistles – the 14 LED digital panels supplemented with big, old-fashioned set pieces and a wonderful cast. This production is updated to be set in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) although some scenes seemed to be timeless…
Not long into my interview with bass David Parkin, we discovered a mutual admiration of the great Italian bass Cesare Siepi (1923-1910). I was even able to tell David about a wonderful recording he did not know about (of the character Marcel’s Lutheran hymn “Seigneur, rampart et seul soutien” from Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots). Things, therefore,…
The character of Goro in Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly is essential to the opera’s drama. Goro, a marriage broker, is the bridge between the western world of Lieutenant Pinkerton and the consul Sharpless and the traditional Japanese characters. What is more, he is present for a lot of the opera – more than Butterfly’s…