| Welsh National Opera - Boulevard Solitude Reviews | 19 April 2024 |
Sarah Tynan (Manon Lescaut)
Sarah Tynan (Manon Lescaut), Adrian Thompson (Monsieur Lilaque)
Jason Bridges (Armand des Grieux) and Sarah Tynan (Manon Lescaut)
Sarah Tynan (Manon Lescaut)
Sarah Tynan (Manon Lescaut)
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Boulevard SolitudeWelsh National OperaNo. of reviews: 14 | |
A superb performance holds this Henze opera together |
 8 Apr 14 / Seen and Heard |
Welsh National Opera's Fallen Women |
| 29 Mar 14 / What's on Stage |
The experience of the bleak Boulevard Solitude leaves you with some kind of perverse pleasure |
| 15 Mar 14 / MKWeb |
No room for morals in Mariusz Trelinski's bleak new production of Henze's Boulevard Solitude |
| 13 Mar 14 / The Spectator |
An established modern classic |
| 13 Mar 14 / The Birmingham Post |
Henze's retelling of the Manon Lescaut story is a five-star triumph for Welsh National Opera |
| 10 Mar 14 / What's on Stage |
Boulevard Solitude brings WNO’s ‘Fallen Women’ season to a satisfying conclusion |
| 10 Mar 14 / Seen and Heard |
Despite a few inbuilt longueurs, the entire enterprise is a deserved triumph for WNO |
| 1 Mar 14 / Financial Times |
Boris Kudlička’s designs have changed in detail but not in essence from Manon Lescaut |
| 28 Feb 14 / The Arts Desk |
The perverse pleasure of dark opera |
| 28 Feb 14 / Telegraph |
A modern work realised in a thoroughly modern way |
| 28 Feb 14 / South Wales Argus |
A powerful evening of music theatre, telling its cautionary tale clearly and effectively |
| 28 Feb 14 / The Stage |
Director Mariusz Treliński fails to define Henze's dramatic narrative |
| 28 Feb 14 / The Guardian |
Boulevard Solitude is given a chilling, precise and cinematographic feel |
| 28 Feb 14 / Wales Online |
Production details
Cast
Tynan, Bridges, Bevan, Thompson, Moore, Cole, Wygoda
(c) Koenigs (d) Trelinski
Performance dates
26, 28 February, 6, 13, 20, 27 March, 3 April 2014
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