| English National Opera - Between Worlds Reviews | 19 April 2024 |
Rhian Lois, Phillip Rhodes, Eric Greene, Clare Presland, William Morgan
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Between WorldsEnglish National OperaNo. of reviews: 16 | |
The lack of drama in the action came as a great disappointment |
 22 Apr 15 / Express |
The dangers of transforming 9/11 into stylised art |
| 21 Apr 15 / The Conversation |
Tansy Davies and Nick Drake’s 9/11 opera is daunting, difficult and simply told |
| 20 Apr 15 / The Observer |
Tansy Davies's 9/11 opera is deeply moving, yet needs to bridge more than worlds |
| 16 Apr 15 / The Arts Desk |
More about healing than destruction |
| 16 Apr 15 / Music OMH |
Tansy Davies brings Twin Towers catastrophe to the stage |
| 16 Apr 15 / Seen and Heard |
The composer Tansy Davies takes on a sensitive subject with lyric-theater opera, with Deborah Warner directing |
| 15 Apr 15 / New York Times |
ENO deserves credit for supporting and performing the work |
| 15 Apr 15 / Opera Today |
Caught between life and death |
| 15 Apr 15 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
The power of love |
| 14 Apr 15 / Bachtrack |
The score leaves a muted impression |
| 14 Apr 15 / The Stage |
A wonderful, haunting and profoundly moving piece of work |
| 14 Apr 15 / Opera Britannia |
Tansy Davies’s 9/11 opera is a tasteless orgy of tedious breast-beating |
| 14 Apr 15 / Financial Times |
Nothing like as affecting as it ought to be |
| 13 Apr 15 / The Guardian |
The psychological truth of this inexorable drama comes across with awesome power |
| 13 Apr 15 / Independent |
Deborah Warner’s direction matches the restraint of the music |
| 13 Apr 15 / Classical Source |
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How can you make an opera about 9/11?
Opera has always thrived on grandiose spectacle, but are the events at the World Trade Center a tragedy too far? The team behind ENO’s new work Between Worlds talk about dramatising this day.
Opera has always thrived on grandiose spectacle, but are the events at the World Trade Center a tragedy too far? The team behind ENO’s new work Between Worlds talk about dramatising this day.
‘I don’t think a 9/11 opera could have been done earlier’
Composer Tansy Davies on writing a 9/11 opera, playing in rock bands, and the joys of circuit training.
Composer Tansy Davies on writing a 9/11 opera, playing in rock bands, and the joys of circuit training.
How Tansy Davies turned 9/11 into her opera 'Between Worlds'
Tansy Davies makes her operatic debut with a work about the attack on the Twin Towers. Despite the topic, it is a life-affirming piece.
Tansy Davies makes her operatic debut with a work about the attack on the Twin Towers. Despite the topic, it is a life-affirming piece.
Production details
Cast
Watts, Greene, Lois, Presland, Rhodes, Bickley, Morgan
(c) Cornelius (d) Warner
Performance dates
11, 13, 15, 17, 19(m), 21, 23, 25 April 2015
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