| The Royal Opera - Miss Fortune Reviews | 26 April 2024 |
Emma Bell (Tina)
Noah Stewart (Hassan), Emma Bell (Tina)
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Emma Bell (Tina), Chorus
Andrew Watts (Fate)
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Miss FortuneThe Royal OperaNo. of reviews: 17 | |
An opportunity missed |
 20 Mar 12 / Opera Britannia |
Judith Weir's rare failure is an inner-city Cinderella story that never lifts off ... unlike the kebab van |
| 18 Mar 12 / Independent on Sunday |
Pity anyone who has the misfortune to sit through Miss Fortune |
| 18 Mar 12 / The Spectator |
The characters are archetypes who grovel in the dirt of cliché |
| 18 Mar 12 / The Observer |
Aesthetically, the production is incredible |
| 15 Mar 12 / Musical Criticism |
Mixed fortunes at the Royal Opera as Judith Weir's latest fails to inspire |
| 15 Mar 12 / Music OMH |
An evening best forgotten |
| 14 Mar 12 / What's on Stage |
Opera as self-help: Judith Weir's Miss Fortune opens, airily, at Covent Garden |
| 14 Mar 12 / Telegraph |
The first-night success of Judith Weir’s new opera owed much to the musical mastery of conductor Paul Daniel |
| 14 Mar 12 / Financial Times |
Sad to say but Judith Weir’s sixth opera is an
embarrassment |
| 14 Mar 12 / Independent |
Judith Weir's new opera is one big, expensive mistake |
| 14 Mar 12 / The Arts Desk |
Despite some fireworks, Judith Weir's new work shows few signs of blazing creativity |
| 14 Mar 12 / Evening Standard |
Hard to fathom |
| 14 Mar 12 / The Guardian |
This all-new opera at the Royal Opera House is a limping, flaccid non-starter |
| 14 Mar 12 / Telegraph |
Banal libretto and unadventurous score mar Judith Weir’s new opera |
| 14 Mar 12 / Seen and Heard |
It’s a shame that Miss Fortune does not deliver on the broad appeal that it promises |
| 14 Mar 12 / Classical Source |
There’s an air of whimsy about the enterprise that doesn’t wholly convince |
| 14 Mar 12 / The Stage |
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Another bad modern opera at Covent Garden
Why is the Royal Opera House allowed to throw money away?
Why is the Royal Opera House allowed to throw money away?
Miss Fortune: Why I wrote a real-life soap opera
Are launderettes, kebab vans and bankers really the stuff of opera? Judith Weir explains why her latest work – a parable about the financial crisis – had to have them.
Are launderettes, kebab vans and bankers really the stuff of opera? Judith Weir explains why her latest work – a parable about the financial crisis – had to have them.
Production details
Cast
Ewing, Bell, Watts, Stewart, Owens, Imbrailo, Harries
(c) Daniel (d) Chen
Performance dates
12, 15, 20, 23, 28 March 2012
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