Verdi’s opera Rigoletto marked the beginning of Opera Holland Park’s 2023 season last week. The story of a disabled jester who feels trapped in a society he despises makes for good drama. Not surprisingly Verdi saw in the court jester Rigoletto “A Creation worthy of Shakespeare”. “If I am evil – you are to blame”, Rigoletto sings but…
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Opera is back at Holland Park
This OHP production is highly recommended. Ticket returns are available if you sign up for an alert system, but I strongly urge you to try or call box office direct. On the evening I was present, filming was taking place of Marriage of Figaro so here’s hoping that plenty of others have access to this remarkable production.
Lustrous line-up of singers for ENO’s Luisa Miller
Verdi is a fascinating composer. His musical output was phenomenal and he managed to notch up twenty-five operas during a long and largely successful career. He was long-living too, dying at the grand old age of eighty-seven. It’s quite an achievement when you think how many composers, worn out from the effort of composing and…
Is This The Future of Opera? Youthful Exuberance for Opera Holland Park.
Jack Holton (Anckarström) with Blaise Malaba (Ribbing) and Tom Mole (Horn). Like Shakespearean actors and concert pianists, opera singers are outsiders in today’s entertainment world of self-made performers boasting one million subscribers on their Youtube channel. Accessibility is of course a lovely idea and the internet has certainly provided an equal platform for…
Verdi’s Ballo in Maschera. A Revelation.
Verdi and the Naples censor when preparing “Ballo”, 1857–58, caricature by Delfico Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Un Ballo in Maschera, nearly didn’t see the light of day. The problem lay in Italy’s troubled political situation and the opera’s libretto, based on the assassination of King Gustave III in 1793 during a masked ball. When…
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