Tag Archives: Handel
Gloom descends on St Martin’s Lane
… and I’m not referring to the need to discount the tickets desperately in order to fill the great barn that is the Coliseum. Radamisto is Handel in “17 Variations on a Theme of Woe” mode. The performance was led … Continue reading
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Tamerlano… briefly
I will keep this brief. I’m never pleased with myself after leaving an opera at an interval, but this evening’s performance of Tamerlano at Covent Garden really didn’t present much of an incentive to stay. To be blunt, it was … Continue reading
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Cesare at Glyndebourne: woo-hoo!
I am a lucky sausage. As well as all these lovely Covent Garden and ENO performances of late, I got tickets for Glyndebourne. Giulio Cesare, no less. That production on the DVDs. Woo-hoo. Not sure it hadn’t gone a little … Continue reading
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Birthday passes…
With a birthday just gone, it’s been a nice week of distractions. It culminated in Dido & Aeneas and Acis & Galatea at the Royal Opera House (with the Royal Ballet thrown in for good measure, though to questionable effect … Continue reading
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