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Orpheus (2015-10-Sam Wanamaker Playhouse-London)

Type de série: Revival
Théâtre: Globe Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Salle : Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Durée : 3 semaines
Nombre :
Première Preview : Friday 23 October 2015
Première : Friday 23 October 2015
Dernière : Sunday 15 November 2015
Mise en scène : Keith Warner •
Chorégraphie :
Producteur :
Avec : Louise Alder (Eurydice), Mary Bevan/Siobhan Stagg (Orpheus), Graeme Broadbent (Satyr / Pluto), Jennifer Davis (Euphrosyne / Lachesis), Emily Edmonds (Aglaea / Atropos), Lauren Fagan (Thalia / Clotho / Hymen), Keri Fuge (Cupid), Verena Gunz (Aegea), Caitlin Hulcup (Aristaeus), Sky Ingram (Venus), Mark Milhofer (Momus / Alkippe / Jove), Philip Smith (Endymion / Charon)
Commentaires : Coproduction Shakespeare's Globe et The Royal Opera House
Commentaires longs: This new production follows the ground-breaking collaboration between Shakespeare’s Globe and The Royal Opera with L’Ormindo in 2014, critically acclaimed both then and when revived this year.

Once again, the period and candlelit setting of the Sam Wanamaker Theatre are ideally suited to this Baroque opera, first staged in Paris in 1647. When the opera was given its premiere at the Palais Royal, it drew much admiration, not least for its wealth of duets and ensembles alongside inventive and delightful arias. Rossi composed an ever-shifting musical mosaic to match the interweaving comic and tragic strands of the story.

Director Keith Warner creates this new production with a particularly strong cast of young singers known for their interpretations of this repertory. Continuing from L’Ormindo, the music is again under the direction of Christian Curnyn, one of the most sought after Baroque specialists of today, with the Orchestra of Early Opera Company.

The opera will be performed in English, adding further to the immediacy and intimacy of a striking work in a distinctive setting: the perspective from the past also brings us a unique experience for today.

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Pacific Overtures (1987-09-Coliseum Theatre-London)

Type de série: Original London
Théâtre: Coliseum Theatre (Londres - Angleterre)
Durée : 2 mois 2 semaines
Nombre : 27 représentations
Première Preview : Thursday 10 September 1987
Première : Thursday 10 September 1987
Dernière : Thursday 26 November 1987
Mise en scène : Keith Warner •
Chorégraphie : David Toguri •
Producteur :
Avec : Richard Angas (Reciter), Malcolm Rivers (Kayama), Christopher Booth-Jones (Manjiro), John Kitchiner (Lord Abe), Graham Fletcher (Commodore Perry), Michael Sadler (Tamate), Simon Masterton-Smith (The Shogun’s Mother), Terry Jenkins (Madam)
Commentaires : This revolutionary work had a musical score which started with the haunting and mournful sounds of shamisen, shakuhachi and Japanese tonal ranges and gradually, as the country became more Westernised, so did the music - until the final scene is one of frantic heavy rock. It was a history of Japan written from the viewpoint of the Japanese and performed in the style of Kabuki Theatre, with “invisible” stage hands, all the women’s roles played by men, and a “reciter” who comments on the action, reciting the occasional haiku. The critics split exactly in half: it was the most astonishing, original, exciting, profound and brilliant musical; it was a pretty but incomprehensible bore.