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Review of ‘Mr. Punch at the Opera’: “You’ll get a kick, but still makes no good fist”
The 2024 edition of the Grimeborn Festival brings the classical genre closer to the youngest viewers, through this panto-style remake of Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on the show, to let us know if this camp initiation to classical music made him change his tune. It’s not that often that you…
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Review of ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’: “So long, lover boy!”
The Arcola Theatre opened last week the 2023 edition of the Grimeborn Opera Festival, starting with a visually reinvented production of Otto Nicolai’s most succesful piece. Guillermo Nazara shares his views on this montage featuring an queer-inclusive company, to let us know if this marriage of songs and drama has made it smoothly down the…
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Review of ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’: “Dark seduction”
Last week, the Arcola Theatre inaugurated its summer opera festival with a new take on one of the very first classics in all of the genre’s history. Guillermo Názara tells us about his experience at the opening night of this reinvisioned production by the Ensemble OrQuesta, where tradition and avant-garde meet in a epic tale…
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Reseña de ‘L’incoronazione di Poppea’: “Sombría seducción”
La semana pasada, el Teatro Arcola inauguró su festival de ópera de verano con una nueva versión de uno de los primeros clásicos de toda la historia del género. Guillermo Názara nos cuenta su experiencia en el estreno de esta producción reinventada por el Ensemble OrQuesta, donde tradición y vanguardia se unen en una historia…
