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A terrific night of opera: Zanetto/Orfeo ed Euridice, Arcola Theatre, reviewed

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

18 September 2021

9:00 AM

Zanetto/Orfeo ed Euridice

Arcola Theatre

Sinfonia of London/John Wilson

Royal Albert Hall, and available to watch on BBC iPlayer

For a one-hit composer, we hear rather a lot of Pietro Mascagni. His reputation rests on his 1890 debut Cavalleria Rusticana, the one-act Sicilian shocker that’s usually yoked (not always to its advantage) to Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. But in recent years we’ve also seen the cod-medieval car crash of Isabeau, and a couple of outings for Iris, an opera that fuses orientalist opulence with tentacle porn, but not in a good way.

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