Massenet
Dorset Opera Festival stages rarely performed Massenet jewel, Le Roi de Lahore
Dorset Opera Festival is presenting Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore which the company says has not been staged in the UK since 1879. Dorset Opera Festival Artist Director Roderick Kennedy said, “I am incredibly proud to be bringing this rare and captivating opera Le Roi de Lahore to Dorset and to the UK. Reviving a…
Passion and control; Werther at Grange Park Opera
**** John Doyle’s stark yet still beautiful staging of Massenet’s Werther continued what seems a probably unintended season of productions where the soprano dominates even if, as here, a man has the title role. The Gascoigne Orchestra conducted by Christopher Hopkins, sweeping along with the intense score, makes full affect with Massenet’s grand climatic moments….