Just in: 6 new productions in Covent Garden season
NewsA full rollout for 2021-22 features Oliver Mears’s new production followed by fresh stagings of Peter Grimes, Theodora and Jenůfa, the last with Asmik Grigorian (pictured).
Also new at the end of the season is Richard Jones’s reading of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila, with Elīna Garanča and Nicky Spence in the haircut scene.
That was Stanley Kubrick directing Richard Strauss warhorse : Salome.
In the role of the prophet Jokanaan, the baryton lost his voice which became horse, and head to be replaced.
This is Asmik Grigorian’s default photograph in this space. Director is richly rewarded for coming up with a visually disgusting idea.
Semi-staged and concert performances have many virtues.