by Jens Winther | May 25, 2024 | Opera
DON GIOVANNI • VENEDIG LA FENICE ★★★★☆☆ Photo: Michele Crosera DON GIOVANNI REVIEW: A BLAST OF MOZART IN VENICE Venice has always had an air of promiscuity, with its debauched carnivals and a tantalising undertone of sexual licentiousness. The Fenice Opera gets it on...
by Jens Winther | May 14, 2024 | Opera, Opera
ROBERTO DEVEREUX • AMSTERDAM OPERA ★★★★☆☆ Photo: Ben Van Duin REVIEW ROBERTO DEVEREUX: DATED BELCANTO IN AMSTERDAM Belcanto opera is an elite sport. The arias are often super-equillibristic with lightning-fast, acrobatic runs up and down the scale. The Donizetti...
by Jens Winther | Sep 27, 2023 | London, Opera
HAMILTON • LONDON VICTORIA PALACE ★★★★★☆ REVIEW HAMILTON: GROUNDBREAKING MUSICAL TRIUMPH IN LONDON The revolutionary hip-hop R&B musical Hamilton lives up to its wildly hyped reputation in an innovative production at London’s Victoria Palace, where the...
by Jens Winther | Sep 25, 2023 | Opera, Opera
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART 5 • ØSTRE GASVÆRK ★★★★★★ REVIEW ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART 5: FABULOUS ROCK THEATER Johan Olsen is a scoop as the gripping incarnation of raging human desperation in Østre Gasværk’s fabulous concert theater production of Pink...
by Jens Winther | Sep 20, 2023 | Opera, Opera
SKRUEN STRAMMES • DET KGL. TEATER ★★★☆☆☆ REVIEW TURN OF THE SCREW: MYSTICISM SPREADS MORE THAN GOOD IS The mystery spreads more than is good in the Royal Danish Theatre’s production of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera Turn of the Screw. Copenhagen Royal...
by Jens Winther | Sep 14, 2023 | London, London, Opera, Opera
DAS RHEINGOLD • ROYAL OPERA HOUSE LONDON ★★★★★☆ REVIEW DAS RHEINGOLD: MASTERFUL KICKOFF TO BARRIE KOSKY’S LONDON RING A saturated silence spreads through London’s gala-clad, packed Royal Opera House as a stark naked 82-year-old woman with an almost...