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Outstanding Productions
Opera North's Britten celebrations,
with MIKE WHEELER
Opera North's Britten celebrations afforded a welcome chance to re-visit their outstanding productions of A midsummer night's dream and Peter Grimes, as well as presenting their first staging of Death in Venice.
It was a delight to return to designer Johan Engels' semi-transparent silver-grey Athenian wood, whose screens and drop-curtain both hide and reveal the fairy shenanigans that tangle, then resolve, the relationships of A midsummer night's dream (Theatre Royal, Nottingham, UK, 19 November 2013). Again the balloon-clouds hovered overhead, re-configuring their circle as the action moves from one scene to the next, and again Bruno Poet's brilliantly conceived lighting added colour after colour as the various enchantments took hold...
Copyright © 29 November 2013
Mike Wheeler,
Derby UK
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