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... than before, but the overall shape of the pro duction is sound, ensuring that this somewhat ambiguous opera works as music-theatre. The music makes considerable demands on the singers, parti cularly some of the principals who have to negotiate wide vocal ...
... fashion, facts and figures, at least on the surface, sometimes appearing to be buried in a spate of enthusiastic words. R.B.M. THEATRE IN PRINT ...
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... London premiere JOHN GARDNER'S opera, The Visitors, given its London premiere by the Englisn Opera Group at Sadler's Wells Theatre on October 16, after a summer Aldeburgh showing, suffers, like so many contemporary operas, from an factory libretto. John ...
... companies in translating Handel's oratorio-like works to the stage and in their new production of Jephtha, at Sadler's Wells Theatre on October 31, they have been larly tortunate in tne results achieved by the Swedish pro ducer Leif SciderstrOm. Jephtha ...
... 'Scipio' THE HANDEL Opera Society repeated, at Sadler's Wells Theatre on November 1, their production of Handel's rarely performed Scipio which they gave at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1967, in Charles Farncombe's version. The work concerns the Roman ...
... masque. Not performed since the early part of the eighteenth century, the work owes its current revival at the Unicorn Theatre, Abingdon, Berkshire, to the enterprise of the Oxford University Opera Club. Like other composers of his time, the younger ...
... developing, finding the possibilities of sing ing. I get enormous satisfaction from opera but I plan to work in the straight theatre for that part of the year when I am not at Glyndebourne. In this way I can renew myself. Early next year he is off to the ...
... Markey THE modestly ambitious Nan Markey Dance Group presented a new work of merit during their short season at St Mary Abbots Theatre on November 22. Built on Poulenc's Gloria and bearing the same name, this short ballet shows a consistency of style and ...
... marvellous blending of music and stagecraft makes this a production which must be seen by all who have the develop ment of theatre at heart. The text, which is Tippett's own, arranges a series of confrontations between a small group of people who are hosts ...
... 1802 to 1812 it was the home of Imanuel Schkaneder, librettist of The Magic Flute, who presen ted the Mozart work at his Theatre auf der Wien in Vienna for the first time on September 30, 1791. He was later to build the still-extant Theater an der Wien ...
... made to him at Sadler's Wells Theatre on December 11. In the picture are, left to right, Frederick Lloyd, general manager of the company, John Reed, Bridget D'Oyly Carte, Douglas Craig, administrator, of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and James Laurie, of the D'Oyly ...