A Decade of the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme - Il Viaggio A Reims

Synopsis

A gala concert uniting many of the Jette Parker Young Artists from the Programme's fist ten years who have gone on to enjoy success on the world's opera stages.

Our Review:

20 July 2012

A group of international travellers are unable to get to a special occasion due to transport problems beyond anyone’s control.  Not a portent of things to come over the next few weeks, surely, but the slenderest of scenarios around which Rossini wove an array of dazzling arias and ensembles for his 1825 Il viaggio a Reims.

In her programme note, Elaine Padmore tells us that the Jette Parker Young Artists scheme, now celebrating a decade of supporting up and coming new singers, directors and repétitéurs at the Royal Opera House, has drawn on 27 countries since it began.  A fair few of them fielded teams for this end-of-term concert staging, and there the Olympic allusions should stop.

Of the 75 young artists who have taken part in the scheme, many have already gone on to glittering careers and the performance drew a few of them back – Ailish Tynan, Jacques Imbrailo, Marina Poplavskaya, Matthew Rose and Edgaras Montv...

Read more of the review

Latest User Review

Fredreick Pyne - 22 July 2012:

I was there and it was a thoroughly enjoyable evening even though a little light in the silly plot. As for our National Anthem being 'dreary' Beethoven said it was the BEST National Anthem tune and he wrote a eerie of variation on it - and I don't think HE"S a bad judge....

Read more and add your own review