Past Production Reviews
10All this was handsomely realized by the Britten Sinfonia, moonlighting as the pit-band at Sadler’s Wells… conducted by the new-music specialist Timothy Redmond…
Under the convincing baton of Timothy Redmond, and in David Pountney’s translation, one can’t imagine the work being better served…
The orchestra in Thomas Adès’s first opera, Powder Her Face, is often like a kind of Greek chorus…Their energy and adaptability, and the riot of colour exploding from the INO Orchestra under Timothy Redmond are unflagging.
What makes the evening fly is the superb 15 piece band…You are unlikely to see a better production.
There was much to commend in conductor Timothy Redmond’s rendition of the music, with lush, luxuriant string playing from the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra, under conductor Timothy Redmond, wonderfully convey Puccini’s sweeping, almost cinematic score.
Dionysos, the son of Zeus and the human princess, Semele, was the last of the gods to arrive at Olympus, and was always seen as somewhat of an outsider. Widely known for being the god of wine, of ritual madness and religious ecstasy, he is also the god of illusion and the theatre. He is associated with the giving over of the self to the senses, both pleasurable and painful, and of the abandonment of restraint and rationality, hence his worshippers indulge in frenzied revelries, who then reap both its positive and negative consequences. It is possible that the Dionysos cult may go back 3,500 years, yet the myth and its message still retain a strong hold over the human imagination, its relevance for today’s society as pertinent as ever, and this is the starting point for the composer, Roberto David Rusconi’s, new opera “Dionysos Rising,” premiered in Trento as part of the OPER.A.20.21, 2018-19 season.
