Medea
From: Friday, 15th February 2013
To: Saturday, 16 March 2013
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Synopsis
Banished, betrayed, besieged on all sides, the barbarian sorceress Medea exacts a terrible vengeance upon her faithless lover and all those he holds most dear.
Our Review:
16 February 2013
There are three strands to ENO’s new production of Charpentier’s Medea: firstly the perfectly-constructed Greek legend of sorcery and vengeance; then the traditions of 17th Century French opera, excessively ornamented and de-railing the plot with a massive masque sequence mid-way through; and finally, director David McVicar’s transportation of the work into the recent past, with a 1940s setting familiar from many a war film. It’s slow progress but during the course of the evening these disparate and seemingly irreconcilable elements come together to produce an entirely satisfying whole.
Euripides’s Medea is all elemental passion while McVicar gives us urbane sophistication, with emotion for the most part kept at arm's length as though with tongs. But then so, musically and dramatically, does Charpentier, who, with his librettist Thomas Corneille (brother of le Grand Corneille) builds layers of embellishme...
Cast
Sarah Connolly (Medea)
Jeffrey Francis (Jason)
Katherine Manley (Creuse)
Roderick Williams (Orontes)
Brindley Sherratt (Creon)
Rhian Lois (Nerine)
Creative
Charpentier (Music)
English National Opera (Producer)
Christian Curnyn (Conductor)
David McVicar (Director)
English National Opera (Company)
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