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The week in classical: The Monster in the Maze; Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson; Rigoletto – review
The Observer 10 Nov 2024
The further you get from infancy, the more chilling any story about missing children becomes. Think Boko Haram. Think Gaza. Think Ukraine ... For , Jonathan Dove (and his regular librettist, Alasdair Middleton) went further back ... View image in fullscreen ... .
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The week in classical: The Monster in the Maze; Yuja Wang and Víkingur Ólafsson; Rigoletto ...
The Guardian 09 Nov 2024
Think Boko Haram . Think Gaza . Think Ukraine ... For The Monster in the Maze , Jonathan Dove (and his regular librettist, Alasdair Middleton) went further back ... ....
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The Snowmaiden review – crystalline singing brings elemental folktale to life
The Guardian 06 Oct 2024
Snow Princess, as she’s called in Alasdair Middleton’s flowing translation, is the daughter of bickering Spring Beauty and Grandfather Frost, and her story has the community’s salvation from eternal winter hinging upon her learning to love ... ....
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Odyssey review – Jonathan Dove cantata gives powerful voice to refugee experience
The Guardian 29 Jan 2024
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The week in classical: Itch; Semele; Prom 16 – review
The Guardian 29 Jul 2023
Composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton have devised a compelling piece of music theatre, telling a fast-paced story with power, grace and wit that will surely go into the repertory ... ....
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Itch review — a delightful fusion of opera and science
The Times/The Sunday Times 24 Jul 2023
★★★★☆ ... A new opera called Itch, adapted by the composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton from a children’s book series by Simon Mayo, also contains a “science could destroy us” warning, but it’s much more fun.Sponsored ... Related articles.
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Itch review – a tale of chemistry, corporate muscle and kidnap
The Guardian 23 Jul 2023
... Holland Park ’s first mainstage premiere comes from the tried and tested pairing of composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton and is based on the Itch children’s books by Simon Mayo .
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‘Mozart didn’t have explosions’: Simon Mayo on how his book Itch became an opera
The Observer 18 Jul 2023
The first proper interview I ever conducted was with the late John Wells ... He explained that now, if a book or play was a huge success, it became a movie ... He approached Jonathan Dove to compose the music and Alasdair Middleton to write the libretto ... .
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Spring Opera and Dance Preview: 12 Reasons To Jump And Sing
New York Observer 23 Feb 2023
Clockwise from top ... Erin Baino / Courtesy of Sara Baras / Zenith Richards ... Ursula Kaufmann ... Jan Husták ... Composer Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton explore climate change and how the voices of the people can be raised on behalf of nature ... .
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