opera
Die Walkure at Hackney Empire : Like a Virgin – Opera for beginners
Die Walkure ☆☆☆☆ Arcola Theatre at Hackney Empire Here at Queerguru, we pride ourselves on being very much part of the Try-It-You-Might-Like-It -Club. Indeed one of the senior team is rumored to have that as a tramp stamp in cursive. However, when we got the invite to review Wagner’s opera Die Walkure at the…
Queerguru’s Jonathan Kemp waxes lyrically about Gothic Opera’s new production of BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE
Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartok Porchester Hall, London, July 8th-10th ☆☆☆☆ In mid-March 2020 – which feels now like eons ago – I waxed lyrical about a certain dancer, Carmine de Amicis, in his role as Jokanaan in a dance-theatre adaptation of Wilde’s Salomé . Then Covid19 struck and a hurdle-track of lockdowns prevented…
Lucia Lucas talks about The Sound of Identity that profiles her stunning US debut as Don Giovanni
What strikes one most about LUCIA LUCAS, the American opera singer now based in Germany who is the subject of a new documentary is her sheer passion for both life and opera. In the film director James Kicklighter captures that so succinctly as he profiles Lucas as she is about to make her…
I Loves You Porgy ….. live on PBS Great Performances on July 17th
We may be spoilt for choices with so much culture now being streamed online right now, but here is one real treat we would not dream of missing. This Friday, July 17, PBS’s Great Performances will present the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019 production of George and Ira Gershwin and DuBose and Dorothy Heyward’s Porgy and Bess. Directed by…
