From my monthly essay in The Critic (new issue out today)
… Nothing in opera surpasses that single scenic blow to the seat of emotions. The effect is so visceral that I have seen cellists in the orchestra weep as they play and stagehands wipe their eyes on a sleeve.
Not even the most perverse stage director (we’ll come to them) can disrupt the power of this opera, drawn as it is from the darkest reaches of the soul….
Read on here.
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.jpg?w=160&resize=160,160&ssl=1 "By turns ravishing & spine-tingling: period instrument orchestra Les Siècles is the star of the show in Berlioz's La damnation de Faust at the BBC Proms conducted by Jakob Lehmann")
