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The Review - CLASSICAL & JAZZ
Published: 20 August 2009
 

Gianni Schicchi
Seasonal delights will revive spirits

PREVIEW: AUTUMN OPERAS
Royal Opera House

THE autumn opera season at the Royal Opera House has considerable variety in its mix of revivals and new productions with, as always, some great singers.

Highlights include:


* Don Carlo. First revival of last year’s acclaimed production of Verdi’s grand opera about all sorts of goings-on amidst tangled love life in the court of Philip II of Spain. German tenor Jonas Kaufmann is Don Carlo.
Opens September 15, six performances.

* Tristan und Isolde.
New production of ­Wagner’s story of ­forbidden love that ­ended in great love suicides committed by the besotted denied their “endless night of love”.
Leading Wagnerian tenor Ben Heppner is making his RoH debut as Tristan and Swedish soprano is Isolde again
Opens September 29, six performances.

* Carmen. Revival of Francesco Zambello’s vibrant 2006 production of Bizet’s evergreen melodrama with its fine love-murder.
Latvian mezzo Elina Garanca is Carmen again. Opens October 3, six performances

* L’Heure Espagnole/ Gianni ­Schicchi. First revival of Richard Jones’ 2007 ­witty staging of the ­Ravel/Puccini double bill. In the Ravel opera, Romanian mezzo Ruxandra Donose is the highly sexed Concepcion receiving various lovers while her husband goes out to wind up the town’s clocks. British baritone Thomas Allen is making his house debut as the scheming Gianni ­Schicchi.
Opens October 17, five performances.

* 0844 209 1805

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