★★★★ Itch is marvellously scary – and under Saturday’s near-apocalyptic rain, all too relevant with its theme of climate destruction I’m sure this opera ia here to stay 🖋️ jessicaduchen
The music, with eight singers and a small orchestra of 12, is translucent, malleable and often gorgeous. Dove transforms speech patterns into musical motifs, milking the rhythmic potential of a line like “2Na plus 2H2O”. Middleton’s clever, concentrated libretto providesJust as in Jonathon Dove’s Flight, there’s an evil, controlling, coloratura soprano .
Director Stephen Barlow unfolds pacey action on Frankie Bradshaw’s set, an ingenious 3-D periodic table accommodating projections and lighting effects ranging from a tin mine to a hallucination of Mustique. Nevertheless, there’s a lot of story to accommodate, risking some holes. One moment Itch is putting Jack on a train near London, the next he’s inexplicably down the mine in Cornwall; and the end, though moving, feels abrupt, without bringing closure for key characters beyond Itch and his father. Itch’s mum vanishes after one scene – sung by Bottone, who doubles as Roshanna.
Tenor Adam Temple-Smith as Itch is all good-hearted innocence, while Eric Greene is heartfelt as dad Nicholas and Natasha Agarwal is an irrepressible Jack. And the violent teacher Nathaniel Flowerdew, brilliantly incarnated by Nicholas Garrett, is possibly the nastiest of all operatic villains.Overall,all too relevant with its theme of climate destruction. I’m sure this opera ia here to stay.
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