Il trionfo del tempo e disinganno: Handel reimagined as a suburban psychodrama – with devastating results
This inventive take on the 1707 dramatic allegory is an astonishing reflection on the human condition and the dynamics of family life
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This inventive take on the 1707 dramatic allegory is an astonishing reflection on the human condition and the dynamics of family life
Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is notoriously tricky to get right, which makes this Garsington production an unexpected delight
The music rampages under Anthony Negus’s conducting in this fine production that strips back everything to its essentials
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David Bates’s conducting leaves little flexibility and freedom for the voices to create their own drama out of Busenello’s vivid text
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