Showing posts with label Opus Arte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opus Arte. Show all posts
Thursday, August 3, 2017

Gorgeous bits without dramatic purpose

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The Royal Ballet, Liam Scarlett, Frankenstein Liam Scarlett's Frankenstein , which premiered in May of 2016, contains a very fi...
Friday, October 14, 2016

A modern masterpiece brought to post-modern life

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This new Opus Arte Blu-ray disc  of last year's Glyndbourne production of Britten's The Rape of Lucretia is a very welcome rec...
Friday, July 29, 2016

The best Henry V for the home theatre

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The last three plays in Shakespeare's Tetralogy, Henry IV, parts I & II, and  Henry V , are a bit like a Three Card Monte game...
Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Impressive staging and presentation of a master-work

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Karol Szymanowski’s opera Król Roger ( King Roger ) was written in the period 1918-1924, and received its premiere performance in Warsaw ...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Shear vulgarity

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My favourite thing about ‘Eurotrash’ opera productions - radically political and elaborately trendy remixes of 18th and 19th century work...
Monday, November 2, 2015

A comic masterpiece, with tragic relief

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From March 19, 2015: Watching the superb new BluRay version of this Royal Shakespeare Company production of the two parts of Henry IV,...

A Towering Don Giovanni on Blu-ray

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From December 2, 2014: Everything about the new Blu-ray disc of the early 2014 Royal Opera production of Don Giovanni is of the highest...