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		<title>Britten&#8217;s &#8216;Peter Grimes&#8217; &#8211; Royal Opera &#8211; ROH</title>
		<link>http://operagurl.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/267/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any English opera connoisseur can tell you, Benjamin Britten’s music sets a tone, an atmosphere, that is almost impossible to ignore when creating a production. Thus it is never a surprise when his work is presented against a background of different shades of grey by a cast dressed in black. But the music is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=267&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Verdi&#8217;s &#8216;Macbeth&#8217; &#8211; Royal Opera &#8211; HMV Curzon, Wimbledon from ROH</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I write these reviews &#8211; yes, I still remember, even after a nine month break &#8211; I try for the most part to remain neutral on the topic of the actual music as written by the composer… but, when it comes to Verdi’s take on Macbeth I cannot help but think ‘why Verdi?’. Why [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=262&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Perfect Opera Ever Written</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said that ‘Le nozze di Figaro’ is “the most perfect opera ever written” and there is certainly a very good case to be made in support of this statement; catchy tunes, an enticing story, great characters; and when produced really well (here I’m thinking of David McVicar’s 2006 ROH production, http://operagurl.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/mozart’s-‘le-nozze-di-figaro’-royal-opera-roh/) it is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=255&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strauss’ ‘Salome’ &#8211; Royal Opera &#8211; ROH</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 15:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me premise this by saying that my loyalty to McVicar and my love of Strauss make it very difficult for me to fairly review this production, but I shall employ my better judgement and be as honest as possible. I have owned this production on DVD since 2008, when it was originally performed at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=252&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BP Big Summer Screens – Verdi’s ‘Simon Boccanegra’ – Live from ROH, to Trafalgar Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to admit to being rather amused at the excitement surrounding Placido Domingo’s appearance at the Royal Opera House. In my experience, when they advertise and promote a singer or a performance to the extent which they have done for Simon Boccanegra, the public will expect the performance to be brilliant, see it as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=222&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ &#8211; Shakespeare’s Globe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theatre Reviews]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With a famously dark play like Macbeth, a play that some actors and directors won’t even perform because of “the curse”, it seems appropriate, necessary even, to completely throw yourself into that damned, bloodthirsty world. Lucy Bailey’s new production at The Globe is about as bloody and dark as it could be &#8211; a sign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=218&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar Wilde’s ‘Salome’ &#8211; Headlong Theatre and Curve Theatre, Leicester &#8211; Theatre Royal Brighton</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Wilde goes, Salome is certainly not typical, and Jamie Lloyd’s new production pushes it further. Hailed as ‘experimental’ companies, Salome seems like perfect material for Headlong Theatre and Curve Theatre, Leicester, and it definitely yielded some interesting theatre &#8211; although not all good. The stage was set, or rather stripped, by Soutra Gilmour, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=209&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ – Royal Opera – ROH</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do I begin? Upon leaving the Royal Opera House after David McVicar’s 2006 production of Le Nozze di Figaro, I felt, as a reviewer, that there was one major flaw with this production: McVicar  had left me with nothing to criticise. I tossed and turned, trying to sleep that night, haunted by the idea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=205&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bizet’s ‘The Pearl Fishers’ – English National Opera – The London Coliseum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I sat watching Penny Woolcock’s new production of The Pearl Fishers at ENO, I wondered if anyone had ever had as unique a night at the opera as my fellow audience members and I were enjoying. At 7.30pm, once we were all seated and the lights had gone down, John McMurray, the casting director [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=199&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BP Big Summer Screens – Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ – Live from ROH, to Trafalgar Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StellaB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having attended BP Big Summer Screens in 2009 for Caurier and Leiser’s Il barbiere di Siviglia there was no doubt in my mind that I would be back &#8211; even though I had sat in Trafalgar Square last year while it poured with rain, my designer shopping bags growing soggier by the minute. However, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=operagurl.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6368937&amp;post=194&amp;subd=operagurl&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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