The Minotaur Music Theatre - Savitri/The Waiter's Revenge/Hin Und Zuruck
From: Thursday, 7th October 2010
To: Sunday, 10 October 2010
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Our Review:
10 October 2010
While Islington’s King’s Head is launching itself as London’s latest opera house, it’s fair to point out that another pub, the Rosemary Branch, a few streets closer to Shoreditch, has been doing something similar for some years now.
Their latest offering, by regular producer The Minotaur Music Theatre, was a clutch of operatic shorts, a programme that was cast in roughly symphonic form.
Like any good opening movement, the first had a degree of substantiality, with Gustav Holst’s 20-minute Savitri. The composer stated that it should be performed “in the open air or else a small building” and the Rosemary Branch certainly obliged with the latter.
Sounding like Vaughan Williams with Wagnerian overtones, the strength of the music is in the vocal lines, apt when accompanied by piano rather than the intended 12 instrument chamber band. Three strong principals (Josep...
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Gustav Holst (Savitri) (Music)
Stephen Oliver (The Waiter's Revenge) (Music)
Paul Hindemith (Hin Und Zuruck) (Music)
Genevieve Ellis (Musical Director)
Eunjung Lee (Musical Director)
Stuart Barker (Director)
Rachel Wingate (Design)
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