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From: john Lanigan-O'Keeffe
Date: 16 Mar 2007
Time: 11:21:39 -0500
Remote Name: 85.12.72.2
>From: john Lanigan-O'Keeffe <jlok63@HOTMAIL.COM> >To: OPERA-L@LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU >CC: john Lanigan-O'Keeffe <jlok63@HOTMAIL.COM> >Subject: A rare opera - Camacho's Wedding >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:55:18 -0400 > >A rare opera by the teenage Mendelssohn is to be given at the Bloomsbury >Theatre in London on Monday 19, Wednesday 21, Friday 23 and Saturday 24 >March at 7.30pm. The theatre is a three minute walk from Euston Station, >Euston Square and Warren Street Tubes. > >Being in it, my perceptions could be skewed, but as an operaphile since >childhood in the 1950s I can tell you that this is excellent music and >quite a funny show. > >The influence of composers like Mozart can occasionally be heard but the >most striking aspects are the work's originality and the clarity of >Mendelssohn's conception. > >The story uses the same episode from Cervantes's Don Quixote as Minkus's >ballet Don Quixote. > >The cast is a mixture of professional singers and undergraduates. Their >vitality and attention to music and dramatic detail promises well. Duncan >Macfarland is, in my opinion, the unhumble opinion of a veteran of over >fifty years on the stage, the best director with whom I've worked. > >Charles Peebles conducts a full orchestra. > >Don't miss it. > >Ring 020 7388 8822 for bookings. >John Lanigan-O'Keeffe