Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 | Classical review
Opera Holland Park; Royal Albert Hall, LondonA throbbing medieval love story safely on the wrong side of good taste, Francesca da Rimini is a triumphUntutored in the works of Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944), or "work", since his Francesca da Rimini is almost the only piece of his performed today, I checked the usual dictionary sources. "Crude", "uneven", "dangerous signs of repeating himself", "amoral overtones", "rather superficial" made him sound promising. "Orgies of orchestral rhetoric" confir...
Guardian Music — Opera Holland Park; Royal Albert Hall, LondonA throbbing medieval love story safely on the wrong side of good taste, Francesca da Rimini is a triumphUntutored in the work... more info