theatre summary 2022
88 "trips to the theatre" including 10 visits to Royal Opera House. 2 to Barbican. 37 Operas. 12 Classical concerts.
Best things:
PARTENOPE (in concert), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Partenope - Ana Vieira Leita; Arsace - Hugh Cutting!!! Armindo - Alberto Miguélez Rouco. Emilio - Jacob Lawrence. Rosmira / Eurimene - Helen Charlston. Ormonte - Matthieu Walendzik ****
Hamlet. AMBROISE THOMAS. Paris. Opéra Comique. Musical direction - Louis Langrée. Staging direction - Cyril Teste. Hamlet - Stéphane Degout. Ophélie - Sabine Devieilhe. Claudius - Laurent Alvaro. Gertrude - Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo. ****
Bajazet. Royal Opera House. Linbury Theatre. Adele Thomas, Director; Gianluca Margheri, Bajazet; James Laing, Tamerlano; Niamh O'Sullivan, Asteria; Eric Jurenas, Andronicus; Claire Booth, Irene; Aoife Miskelly, Idaspe ****
The 47th. The Old Vic **** Play about Trump.
Middle. National theatre. Dorfman Theatre **** A play
ELEKTRA. Paris. Director: Carsen. Elektra : Christine Goerke! Chrysothemis : Elza van den Heever. Klytämnestra : Angela Denoke. Aegisth : Gerhard Siegel. Orest : Tómas Tomasson *****
Patriots. Almeida Theatre **** A play about Berezovsky and rise of Putin.
Il barbiere di Siviglia. Haus für Mozart. Salzburg. production by Rolando Villazón. Edgardo Rocha in the role of Count Almaviva, Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina, Alessandro Corbelli as Bartolo, Ildar Abdrazakov in the role of Basilio, José Coca Loza as Fiorello, Arturo Brachetti as Arturo, and Nicola Alaimo in the title role. Gianluca Capuano conducts. *****
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha. Concert. Wigmore hall ****
De uren (The hours). INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM. ****
Arms and the Man . Bernard Shaw. in Orange Tree Theatre ****
Sleeping Beauty. Ballet by Matthew Bourne. Sadler’s Wells. ****
Ruination Linbury Theatre ROH ****
Best things:
PARTENOPE (in concert), Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Partenope - Ana Vieira Leita; Arsace - Hugh Cutting!!! Armindo - Alberto Miguélez Rouco. Emilio - Jacob Lawrence. Rosmira / Eurimene - Helen Charlston. Ormonte - Matthieu Walendzik ****
Hamlet. AMBROISE THOMAS. Paris. Opéra Comique. Musical direction - Louis Langrée. Staging direction - Cyril Teste. Hamlet - Stéphane Degout. Ophélie - Sabine Devieilhe. Claudius - Laurent Alvaro. Gertrude - Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo. ****
Bajazet. Royal Opera House. Linbury Theatre. Adele Thomas, Director; Gianluca Margheri, Bajazet; James Laing, Tamerlano; Niamh O'Sullivan, Asteria; Eric Jurenas, Andronicus; Claire Booth, Irene; Aoife Miskelly, Idaspe ****
The 47th. The Old Vic **** Play about Trump.
Middle. National theatre. Dorfman Theatre **** A play
ELEKTRA. Paris. Director: Carsen. Elektra : Christine Goerke! Chrysothemis : Elza van den Heever. Klytämnestra : Angela Denoke. Aegisth : Gerhard Siegel. Orest : Tómas Tomasson *****
Patriots. Almeida Theatre **** A play about Berezovsky and rise of Putin.
Il barbiere di Siviglia. Haus für Mozart. Salzburg. production by Rolando Villazón. Edgardo Rocha in the role of Count Almaviva, Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina, Alessandro Corbelli as Bartolo, Ildar Abdrazakov in the role of Basilio, José Coca Loza as Fiorello, Arturo Brachetti as Arturo, and Nicola Alaimo in the title role. Gianluca Capuano conducts. *****
Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha. Concert. Wigmore hall ****
De uren (The hours). INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM. ****
Arms and the Man . Bernard Shaw. in Orange Tree Theatre ****
Sleeping Beauty. Ballet by Matthew Bourne. Sadler’s Wells. ****
Ruination Linbury Theatre ROH ****