The Royal Opera - Oedipe Reviews
28 March 2024
Johan Reuter (Oedipe)
General scene
John Tomlinson (Tiresias)
Hubert Francis (Laios), Nicolas Courjal (Theban High Priest), Sarah Connolly (Jocaste)
Alan Oke (Shepherd), Johan Reuter (Oedipe)

Performance reviews

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Oedipe

The Royal Opera


No. 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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