The Royal Opera - Oedipe Reviews | 28 March 2024 |
Performance reviews
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OedipeThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 20 |
Un Edipo fuerte y largo |
23 Jun 16 / Mundo Clásico (Spanish) |
The Romanian composer George Enescu may have been too talented for his own good. |
2 Jun 16 / Express |
Enescu’s only opera, Oedipe, was acclaimed as his masterpiece at its 1936 world premiere in Paris |
1 Jun 16 / Express |
A superb cast ignites Enescu’s neglected 1936 epic in its UK premiere |
30 May 16 / The Observer |
Enescu’s Oedipe – Covent Garden’s most important event this season? |
30 May 16 / Seen and Heard |
Oedipe à la Royal Opera House, Covent Garden |
30 May 16 / Opera Online (French) |
George Enescu’s Oedipe, which arrives in London via La Monnaie where it was presented in 2011, was eagerly awaited and did not disappoint |
30 May 16 / Opera Today |
A neglected work worth revisiting |
26 May 16 / New Statesman |
The masterpiece opera is finally getting the staging it deserves at the Royal Opera House |
26 May 16 / Independent |
The talents of La Fura dels Baus bring a vibrant originality to Enescu's opera |
26 May 16 / What's on Stage |
Masterpiece brought to life |
26 May 16 / Evening Standard |
The Royal Opera House merits considerable praise for bringing Oedipe to another of the world’s great stages |
26 May 16 / Music OMH |
Royal Opera's Oedipe is yet another revived gem to thank Kasper Holten for |
25 May 16 / Telegraph |
Spellbinding staging of a 20th-century masterpiece |
25 May 16 / The Guardian |
A masterpiece |
25 May 16 / Independent |
Musically the work finds Enescu at his most imaginative and wide-ranging |
25 May 16 / Classical Source |
The overall impression is of a spectacularly inventive score |
25 May 16 / Opera Britannia |
Visually spectacular, musically even more so |
25 May 16 / Bachtrack |
Superb singing from the chorus and the large cast |
25 May 16 / Mark Ronan's Theatre Reviews |
Neither the piece nor its production hold the attention |
24 May 16 / The Stage |
Production details
Cast
Reuter, Bevan, Youn, Connolly, Lemieux, Oke, Courjal, Huckle, Sim, Johnson, Tomlinson, Francis, Fagan
(c) Hussain (d) Ollé/Carrasco
Performance dates
23, 26, 30 May, 2, 4, 8 June 2016
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