Pretty happy about that review from The Independant, Thursday 13th of June, by Michael Church: "...And it’s clear that the show’s French-Japanese movement-director Namiko Gahier-Ogawa has put everyone on stage through some rigorous training in the language of Japanese theatrical gesture: we feel this most intensely with the characterisation of Cio-Cio San’s family, with Barnaby Rea’s magnificently forbidding Bonze, and with the characterisation of Cio-Cio San herself. For the way this Butterfly gestures and moves could have come straight out of the floating world of ukiyo-e prints: soprano Anne Sophie Duprels has absorbed that body-language so completely that she can use it to reinforce the expressiveness of her singing. And although her first appearance is over-miked, she settles into a performance which grows in beauty and plangency as the show progresses. independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/classical/reviews/classical-review-madama-butterfly-holland-park-opera-london-8656758.html
Posted on: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 21:08:35 +0000
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