At Holland Park second time around – the company’s first production was in 2007 – it gets the singers, and at the very highest level, but not the concept, or at least one that has any impact. For a ...
*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Léo Delibes’ 1883 opera “Lakmé” has beautiful melodies and a gorgeous orchestration rich in Orientalisms. That music accompanies ...
If Daniel Slater’s current production of Aida represents Opera Holland Park at its most outlandish and flamboyant, Aylin Bozok’s Lakmé stands at the opposite end of the spectrum in being extremely ...
Watching Delibes’ Lakmé is a bit like seeing someone being beaten to death with a feather. All the ingredients of operatic tragedy are there but delivered with the utmost gentleness and grace. In ...