Wonderful Town – Toulon Opéra, France. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth and five years after the ambitious production of Follies!, the Toulon Opéra treated us this year to another classic Broadway musical, expertly staged by the same director, Olivier Bénézech, again setting the piece […]
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Sweeney Todd – Reims Opera House, France
Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was performed at Reims Opera House, France. Star rating: 3 stars ★ ★ ★ What the collective noun for a shedload of Sweeneys is, one can’t be certain – could it be a multitude of Sweeneys (as in ‘Multitude of Amys’ from another Sondheim masterpiece, Company), a Symphony of […]
Sweeney Todd – Château d’Hardelot, France
Sweeney Todd was performed at the Château d’Hardelot (in the quiet village of Condette in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France). Following the Stephen Sondheim cycle at Paris’ Theatre du Châtelet that gave us a full-scale Sweeney Todd two years ago, complete with symphonic orchestra and a large cast, we have been treated to a chamber version set in a contemporary world. […]
