As we journey from the dungeon-esque darkness of the Queen’s nocturnal
demesne towards the gleaming sun-disc which bathes the final chorus in the
luminosity of enlightenment, a Dantesque night is truly turned into day.
However, in 2013, I found the performance, while elegant and slickly choreographed,
‘disappointingly lacklustre’ and missing the sparkle of ‘simple youthful
vitality and dreamy enchantment’. Reflecting again, perhaps some of my
disenchantment derived from a perceived imbalance, on that occasion,
between allegory and artifice.
Photo credit: ROH/Tristram Kenton
Source: Opera Today
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