Review
Wagner - Der fliegende Holländer
Thursday, 27th November 2008
The Barbican
27 / 11 / 2008
Lionel Friend - conductor
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers - Senta
James Hancock - Holländer
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts - Erik
Karl Huml - Daland
Anne-Marie Owens - Mary
Richard Roberts - Steuermann
Philharmonia Chorus - chorus master, Madeleine Lovell
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
"The Philharmonia Chorus was superb throughout and the amplified ghosts were truly cacophonous."
Kevin Rogers, www.classicalsource.com
"...the brief third act (the opera was played with two intervals) saw a rousing sailors' chorus, with strong work from the Philharmonia Chorus, and their amplified ghostly counterparts floating eerily through"
Simon Thomas, www.musicomh.com
