classical preview: Winter season operas
In today’s world that story can be manipulated to fill many scenarios, and be assured that the producer, Tim Albery, will offer a mind-provoking version for Opera North in a new production that forms one of three operas in the winter season.
It opens with a reprise of Albery’s deeply disturbing staging of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Anne Sophie-Duprels is so utterly perfect for the title role, you will shed a tear at her plight. Marunas Vitulskis sings Pinkerton, with Peter Savage returning to sing the American Consul, Sharpless.
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Hide AdRaising a few eyebrows on its first outing, Alessandro Talevi’s new slant on Mozart’s Don Giovanni as a time-travelling Don who has bedded a thousand and three women – and that is in Spain alone. A mix of fun and sinister darkness of female retribution, the cast includes William Dazeley, as the Duke and Elizabeth Atherton as Donna Elvira. Certainly don’t miss the quite remarkable young conductor, Christoph Altstaedt.
The company’s former music sirector, Richard Farnes, conducts The Masked Ball, with Rafael Rojas, as the King, and the Hungarian soprano, Adrienn Miksch, as Amelia.
At Leeds Grand Theatre, January 19-March 3, tickets from the box office on 0844 8482720 or online via www.operanorth.co.uk