Michael Tanner

Mild things

Plus: ETO’s Tosca wasn’t vicious or syrupy enough and how Charles Rosen nails the problem with Mendelssohn’s Elijah

issue 13 May 2017

  • Tosca

    Cambridge Arts Theatre, touring until 11 August

  • Patience

    Cambridge Arts Theatre, touring until 3 August

  • Elijah

    Snape Maltings Concert Hall

English Touring Opera is playing safe this spring, with Tosca and Patience, and was rewarded, in Cambridge at least, with full houses. Its Tosca has been moderately reviewed, and that is about what it deserves. There is only one set, designed primarily with the tableau of chorus and soloists at the end of Act One in mind.

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