| The Royal Opera - Un Ballo in Maschera Reviews | 27 April 2024 |
Joseph Calleja (Riccardo), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Amelia)
General scene
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato), Liudmyla Monastyrska (Amelia), Jihoon Kim (Tom)
Marianne Cornetti (Ulrica), Chorus
Joseph Calleja (Riccardo), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Renato)
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Un Ballo in MascheraThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 13 | |
Apart from the lovely singing there isn’t much going for this production |
 23 Jan 15 / A Younger Theatre |
Ilicitudes verdianas |
| 12 Jan 15 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
Too many ideas and fine performances fail to coalesce in this cemetery themed new production |
| 29 Dec 14 / Planet Hugill |
Despite many of the right ingredients this first night did not really gel |
| 24 Dec 14 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
Few new ideas, none of them interesting |
| 22 Dec 14 / The Guardian |
Calleja and Hvorostovsky light up an otherwise underwhelming Un ballo in maschera |
| 22 Dec 14 / The Observer |
Katharina Thoma’s new production is painfully feeble |
| 22 Dec 14 / Financial Times |
The stench of mediocrity was inescapable in this production of Verdi's masterpiece |
| 20 Dec 14 / Telegraph |
The much-anticipated new production of Verdi's melodrama misses the mark |
| 20 Dec 14 / What's on Stage |
An evening when the sparks failed to fly |
| 20 Dec 14 / Evening Standard |
Verdi's opera is hampered by woefully hammy acting |
| 20 Dec 14 / Independent |
An idiosyncratic version of Verdi’s A Masked Ball that misses its target |
| 20 Dec 14 / The Stage |
Big voices are what’s needed if it’s Verdi rather than Johann Strauss II |
| 20 Dec 14 / The Arts Desk |
Production details
Cast
Calleja, Hvorostovsky, Monastyrska, Cornetti, Gamberoni/Fagan, Johnson, Sivko, Kim, Sakker
(c) Oren (d) Thoma
Performance dates
18, 22, 30 December 2014, 2, 6, 13, 17 January 2015
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22 Apr 24 / The Guardian |