REVIEW: Ruddigore, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
Tim Hochstrasser reviews Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore presented by Opera Holland Park and Charles Court Opera.
Tim Hochstrasser reviews Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore presented by Opera Holland Park and Charles Court Opera.
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This is a very great opera that can take many different interpretations. However, there is no room for compromise. Ultimately, it either has to be done straight and with absolute conviction that the themes with which it deals are as important to our culture now as they were to Verdi in the 1860s. Or if the traditional setting is thought to raise too many troubling questions or is beyond budget to realize then a fully thought-through alternative scenario is needed.