The London Handel Festival opened yesterday with Theodora, full review here, on Music and Vision.
It was heartening to find the festival performing the work uncut, even though it meant spending 3.5 hours in St. George's Church, Hannover Square. A venue which has mixed sight lines, rather uncomfortable pews, terrible provision for loos (not good in long Handel pieces) and last night we seemed to have some very noisy standing room audience as well. The festival were recording the performance, so I hope the mysterious booming noises coming from the back of the balcony did not affect things too much. But, its easy to moan and we should give the festival credit for putting on such a varied and fabulous programme on what is probably a shoe string.
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts this month
-
Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Kullervo Sets Off for War (Mural, 1901, in the Old Student House, Helsinki University) Sigfúsdóttir: Oceans , Grieg: ...
-
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana ; Katherine Broderick, Oliver Johnston, Janis Kelly, Michel de Souza, Idunnu Münch, director: Harry Fehr, con...
-
Bernstein: A Quiet Place - Henry Neill, Elgan Llyr Thomas - Royal Ballet & Opera (Photo: Marc Brenner/ROH) Bernstein: Trouble in Tahiti...
-
Puccini: Il tabarro - Yvonne Howard, Natalya Romaniw - Welsh National Opera (Photo: Craig Fuller) Puccini: Il trittico , Dario Solari, Nata...
-
Wagner: Die Walküre - The London Opera Company, November 2023 London Opera Company presented a full-scale performance of Wagner's Die ...
-
Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert - English Touring Opera Do not take my story for a fairytale , Judith Weir: Blond Eckbert ; Abigail Kelly, Amy J...
-
What about blowing the box to pieces: composer Eímear Noone on writing for video games, films and TVEímear Noone (Photo: Andy Paradise) Dublin and LA-based composer Eímear Noone is known for her scores for video games, films and TV. She re...
-
Title page of the "Bassus Generalis" for one of the partbooks in which the Vespers were published in 1610 Monteverdi: Vespers of 1...
-
Reinis Zariņš (Photo: Andris Sprogis) Latvian pianist Reinis Zariņš will be performing Olivier Messiaen ’s Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-...
-
Jake Heggie (Photo: James Niebuhr) Jake Heggie 's song cycle for soprano, violin and string quartet, Intonations : Songs from the Violin...
Erica Eloff was the star of the performance. With a heart rendering of the title role. Why is she not seen more on stage? To all conductors and casting agents: Eloff is going to be a sure bet!
ReplyDeleteShe was excellent - but the others were too.
ReplyDeleteMade a little video of/for them.
http://www.londonhandelfestival.tv/