Coming up....
Oscar Wilde's epic tragedy turned into a chamber opera...
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The Duchess of Padua
Tue 20 - Sun 25 February 2024 The Space, London E14 3RS Sat 2 March The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond (Yorks.) DL10 4DW Sun 3 March The Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester M1 5BY Sun 10 March The Croft Hall, Hungerford RG17 0HY |
Recent works:
Edward Lambert’s music...
- "...felt sumptuously melodic, as well as busily fresh, with strong, intensely written passages building to moments of euphoric surprise." (operissima)
- "...approachable, but contemporary musical style..." (Planet Hugill)
- "...intriguingly offered elements of bel canto vocal writing to vie with a more ‘modern’ idiom..." (boulezian)
- "...a score whose eroticism was often visceral." (The Guardian)
- "...became increasingly disturbing, and confirmed Lambert's effective text-setting." (Opera Today)
- "...is always strongly directional and full of emotion..." (Newbury Weekly News)
- "...was strikingly imagined and very well played." (The Times)
- "...presented.... some of the most inventively-textured and syntactically original music of the evening." (Daily Telegraph)