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Review: L’enfant et les sortilèges & Trouble in Tahiti, Opera North, Theatre Royal, Nottingham, Nov. 2 & 3, 2017
It would be difficult to imagine a more hard-working company than Britain’s Opera North. To Nottingham’s Theatre Royal they brought touring productions of six short operas split into double bills – on the two nights I saw (November 2 and 3), performed with real conviction. This involved several cast members appearing in two operas a night, as well as doubling up roles within each opera.
Quirijn de Lang as Tom Cat, Wallis Giunta as the Child and Katie Bray as Female Cat in Opera North’s production of Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges Photo: Tristram Kenton
Wallis Giunta undergoes transformation
In Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges (seen Nov. 2), where doubling and tripling is customary, Canadian mezzo-soprano Wallis Giunta had the advantage of singing just the one, lead role. Forthright as a stroppy, self-centred brat when the opera opens, she judged perfectly the gradual transformation into an empathetic child aware of the interdependence of living creatures. Yet at neither end of this spectrum was there any vocal exaggeration.
Those given multiple roles necessarily had to apply more obvious vocal coloration to differentiate the char
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