Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

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(Photo: Marc Brenner) The world of spies, subterfuge, and assassination has long been grist to the operatic mill. Scarpia runs the secret police in “Tosca”; Paolo poisons Boccanegra in Verdi’s Venetian drama of political intrigue; Leonora infiltrates a prison disguised as a man in “Fidelio”. So a contemporary tale like that of dissident and former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned {…}

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Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: La Bohème

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Grange Park Opera, the brainchild of go-getting impresario Wasfi Kani, has taken an energetic approach to the COVID-19 pandemic over the last year, seeing opportunity in challenge. They commissioned and performed a brand new work last summer on the hoof, “A Feast in a time of Plague;” they have offered filmed versions of Britten’s “Owen Wingrave” and Ravel’s “L’heure Espagnole.” {…}

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Grange Park Opera Review 2021: L’heure espagnole

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Grange Park Opera has followed their inventive “Owen Wingrave“, a work intended for television, with a filmed realization of Maurice Ravel’s one-act farce “L’heure espagnole,” the story of a clockmaker’s wife who has to shuffle her liaisons like a deck of cards. Director Stephen Medcalf updated the action from eighteenth-century Toledo – given glancing mention through a Goya print on {…}

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Grange Park Opera 2020 Review: Owen Wingrave

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Lockdown has meant more people than ever consuming opera through streams, broadcasts, and archive videos, often from leading houses. It has proved a mixed experience for many. The spectacle of opera, and its broad-brush gestures, can feel boxy on the small screen; so too can its emotional climaxes feel oddly overblown out of a theatrical context. There have been innovative {…}

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Grange Park Opera, Surrey to Stream ‘Owen Wingrave’

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Grange Park Opera, Surrey, is set to stream a production of “Owen Wingrave” starting on Dec. 9, 2020. The Britten opera was filmed at haunted houses throughout Surrey and London and will be part of the company’s interim season, which features 19 brand new events. The opera stars Ross Ramgobin as Owen with his aunt portrayed by Susan Bullock. Other {…}

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Grange Park Opera to Present Filmed ‘Owen Wingrave’ As Part of Fall 2020 Season

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Grange Park Opera has announced that it will be filming Benjamin Britten’s “Owen Wingrave,” with audiences able to view the work between September and December 2020. The opera will be filmed on location in haunted houses throughout Surrey and London. “The opera requires a dozen interiors, which are well-nigh impossible to achieve on a theatre stage. However, filmed on location, {…}

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Bryn Terfel, Carl Tanner, & Natalya Romaniw Headline Grange Park Opera, Surrey’s 2021 Season

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(Credit: Patrick Allen) Grange Park Opera, Surrey has announced its 2021 season, comprised of fan-favorite works, renowned artists, and more. The season will also see the world premiere of Anthony Bolton’s new work “The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko,” which was originally scheduled to premiere this year. Verdi’s “Falstaff” will open featuring Bryn Terfel, Natalya Romaniw, Janis Kelly, and {…}

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Joseph Calleja, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside Headline Grange Park Opera’s ‘Found’ Season

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Grange Park Opera has announced the official program for its 2020 “Found Season.” For this article, our focus will be on opera and vocal performances. Claire Booth and pianist Christopher Glynn performed Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine.” Streaming Date: June 4, 2020 Bryn Terfel and Hannah Stone performed a recital from home. Streaming Date: June 6, 2020 Tenor Wynne Evans will {…}

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Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2020 Digital Season

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(Image Sources: Aksanas Holt / Harlequin) Grange Park Opera, Surrey is set to launch a season of entirely new work which will be available online for free at the company’s official website. Starting on June 4 and through June 12, the company will showcase 15 performances available online featuring over 70 of the world’s leading singers and musicians. Among them {…}

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Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: The Life & Death of Alexander Litvinenko

Grange Park Opera 2021 Review: La Bohème

Grange Park Opera Review 2021: L’heure espagnole

Grange Park Opera 2020 Review: Owen Wingrave

Grange Park Opera, Surrey to Stream ‘Owen Wingrave’

Grange Park Opera to Present Filmed ‘Owen Wingrave’ As Part of Fall 2020 Season

Bryn Terfel, Carl Tanner, & Natalya Romaniw Headline Grange Park Opera, Surrey’s 2021 Season

Joseph Calleja, Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside Headline Grange Park Opera’s ‘Found’ Season

Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Joseph Calleja Headline Grange Park Opera’s 2020 Digital Season