| The Royal Opera - The Monstrous Child Reviews | 20 April 2024 |
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Hel), Dan Shelvey (Baldr)
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Hel)
Graeme Broadbent (Odin), Lucy Schaufer (Modgud), Marta Fontanals-Simmons (Hel)
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Rosie Aldridge (Angrboda)
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The Monstrous ChildThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 9 | |
It is gruesomely gruesome |
 4 Mar 19 / The Observer |
Marta Fontanals-Simmons gave a fine performance as Hel |
| 28 Feb 19 / Opera Today |
A new opera in a new opera house is always an intriguing prospect |
| 28 Feb 19 / Express |
The opera feels very much like a narration with illustrations |
| 26 Feb 19 / Music OMH |
Gods, love and death in the underworld |
| 23 Feb 19 / The Guardian |
Norse stuff is cool |
| 23 Feb 19 / Classical Source |
An inventive staging |
| 23 Feb 19 / The Stage |
Norse hell in the depths of the Royal Opera House |
| 23 Feb 19 / Bachtrack |
Electronics crackle as the Aurora Orchestra bring Higgins’s patchwork soundworld to life |
| 23 Feb 19 / Opera Now |
associated articles [+]
Francesca Simon
How I turned The Monstrous Child into ‘Wagner for teens’
How I turned The Monstrous Child into ‘Wagner for teens’
Production details
Cast
Fontanals-Simmons, Aldridge, Randle, Schaufer, Broadbent, Shelvey, Karani
(c) Cottis (d) Sheader
Performance dates
21, 22, 24, 25(m), 27, 28 February, 2, 3 March 2019
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