There were plenty of vocal performances to treasure. Back at ENO around the same time, Weinberg's The Passenger - beyond entertainment, an honourable memorial to Holocaust survivors, not a masterpiece but with masterly scenes - stood in a class of its own. Their Puccini Trittico ended with a best-ever Gianni Schicchi, though the indisposition of Anja Harteros robbed us of a high-level heartbreaking Suor Angelica. The post-Brecht/Weill American tragicomedy's pathos and absurdity were stoked and focused by the irreproachable teamwork of Antonio Pappano and Richard Jones. Its splendid cast and conductor Leo Hussain worked as one to enhance the paradoxes of its terrible beauty.ĮNO’s newcomer on the schoolboy front, Nico Muhly’s Two Boys, rang hollow in a way that Turnage’s Anna Nicole over at the Royal Opera did not.
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