Review: Albert Herring, Opera North, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds
Review: Albert Herring, Opera North, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, Friday, January 12th, 2024
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Review: Albert Herring, Opera North, Howard Assembly Room, Leeds, Friday, January 12th, 2024
Tree's company in this sublime account of one of Handel's most popular operas.
Handel’s tree-hugging despot enjoys a lively new outing, the Philly aces Rachmaninov, Christian Li explores Mendelssohn, and Offenbach’s Peruvian soufflé fizzes with fun.
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When tears well up during stretches of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s curious hybrid which you never expected to move you, something special's going on. The magic happened last night in an evening which I didn't anticipate equalling “the Carmelites experience” at Glyndebourne. But, in its very different way, it did, in terms of casting, conducting and a production (by Bruno Ravella) that wasn’t too interventionist but had some powerful ideas of its own.