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Opera Today
October 31, 2015
64th Wexford Festival Opera
This year’s triptych, though, might have been titled, in the manner of Restoration tragedy, ‘Love Thwarted or, Irremediable Heartache’ (indeed, Dryden’s ‘All for Love or, the World Well Lost’ would have served well), such was the prevailing mood of the unalleviated romantic misery and morbidity. Fortunately, the music presented and the performances given were more than sufficient compensation for the emotional wretchedness and desolation enacted on stage.
Writing of Wexford’s 2012 production of Frederick Delius’s A Village Romeo and Juliet, I expressed my conviction that director Stephen Medcalf had ‘made a truly convincing case for the theatrical presentation of a work so often dismissed as six discrete “tone poems” which lack dramatic momentum and coherence’, concluding ‘I cannot imagine a more thoughtful and illuminating staging of this opera’.
Delius’s Koanga — the composer’s third opera (of six), which was first performed in 1904, three years before the premiere of A Village Romeo and Juliet — is perhaps a more difficult work to pull off. Artistic Director David Agler, speaking of his 11th • This year’s triptych, though, might have been Writing of Wexford’s 2012 production of Frederick Delius’s A Delius’s Koanga — the composer’s third opera (of •
titled, in the manner of Restoration tragedy, ‘Love Thwarted or,
Irremediable Heartache’ (indeed, Dryden’s ‘All for
Love or, the World Well Lost’ would have served well), such was the
prevailing mood of the unalleviated romantic misery and morbidity. Fortunately,
the music presented and the performances given were more than sufficient
compensation for the emotional wretchedness and desolation enacted on
stage.
Village Romeo and Juliet, I expressed my conviction that director Stephen
Medcalf had ‘made a truly convincing case for the theatrical presentation
of a work so often dismissed as six discrete “tone poems” which
lack dramatic momentum and coherence’, concluding ‘I cannot imagine
a more thoughtful and illuminating staging of this opera’.
six), which was first performed in 1904, three years before the premiere of
A Village Romeo and Juliet — is perhaps a more difficult work to
pull off. Artistic Director David Agler, speaking of his 11th
Festival programme, commented that Koanga is
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