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Orgia: Parra and Bieito Recreate Pasolini
Xavier PujolThe opera Orgia, for three voices and chamber orchestra, with music by Hèctor Parra and libretto by Calixto Bieito, which had its world premiere at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao in June 2023, has now arrived at the Liceu in Barcelona. Orgia, of which only two performances will be offered in Barcelona, is based on the play of the same name by Pier Paolo Pasolini, which was premiered -some say not very successfully- in Turin in 1968. Bieito's libretto has reduced the theatrical...
Aigul Akhmetshina Shines in Carmen at the Royal Opera House, C...
Sam SmithBased on Prosper Mérimée’s eponymous novella, Georges Bizet’s Carmen of 1875 is the story of the ultimate temptress. A gypsy and cigarette factory worker in Seville, Carmen has the power to entice any man she chooses. Once, however, they are besotted with her she quickly moves on, leaving them heart broken and unable to accept what has happened. In the opera Don José, an army corporal, has almost everything he could ever desire. He has the sweet, loving...
English National Opera Presents Duke Bluebeard’s Castle at the...
Sam SmithBéla Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, with a libretto by Béla Balázs, is a one act Symbolist opera, based on the French folk legend as told by Charles Perrault. Bartók originally composed it in 1911, but made quite a few modifications before it premiered at the Royal Hungarian Opera House in Budapest on 24 May 1918. Lasting around an hour, and involving just two singing characters, it tells the story of when Bluebeard brings his new wife...
First Rate Performances in Revival of David Alden’s Jenufa at...
Sam SmithJenůfa, which premiered in Brno in 1904, is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer. It is based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová, and is one of the very first operas to be written in prose. Set in a Moravian village in the nineteenth century, the plot concerns a series of tangled relationships, deriving from the fact that two brothers died leaving behind both children and stepchildren. The elder...
Sarah Angliss’s Giant Enjoys its London Premiere at the Royal ...
Sam SmithGiant, with music by Sarah Angliss and libretto by Ross Sutherland, was commissioned by Britten Pears Arts and first appeared at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2023. It explores the relationship between the eighteenth century British surgeon John Hunter and Charles Byrne who, measuring seven feet, seven inches (judged by his skeletal remains) was known as ‘The Irish Giant’. Following Byrne’s death in 1783, Hunter arranged for his body to be stolen while it was on its way to...
Third Revival of Tim Albery’s The Flying Dutchman at the Royal...
Sam SmithThe Flying Dutchman, which premiered in Dresden in 1843, is the fourth of Richard Wagner’s thirteen operas, and considered to be his first mature one. This is because it is the first still to be regularly staged, with Wagner himself having ruled that the three that preceded it should never be performed at his Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. The composer had been inspired to write the opera following a stormy sea crossing he made from Riga to London in 1839, and the story is taken from...
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