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Feb 18 2008
THIS is one of Puccini’s fabulous tearjerkers, and impresario Ellen Kent has a fair reputation to maintain with this taxing piece, as the female soprano has to take centre stage for most of the action....
Feb 5 2008
IF THERE was ever going to be any real magic between the principal parts in this most splendid of Marius Pepita’s ballets, with mostly languorous music by Tchaikovsky, then producer Ellen Kent has surely hit the jackpot with the husband and wife team of Kristina and Alexei Terentiev....
Nov 19 2007
OPERA designers don’t always make it easy for singers. Heather Shipp was at the Royal Opera House this year singing in Wagner’s Ring Cycle and found herself atop what she describes as a “20ft high mantelpiece”....
Oct 29 2007
ONCE again, the remarkable and inventive Ellen Kent is promising another double bill of terrific opera productions stamped with her own personal style and featuring a host of special effects, wonderful costumes and, of course, live animals galore....