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Some took to it better than others. Angelika Kirchschlager for one. She threw out the rulebook and played Jenny with her tongue in her cheek and a dollop of sauce. Polly Peachumd's essential vulgarity was subdued beneathl Dorothea Röschmann='s elegant lieder technique but she displayed wit and superb comic timing in her spat with Cora Burggraaf<'s equally sophisticated Lucy Brown.
In Alice Cooteh's Hänsel and Camilla Tillingp's Gretel we had a less intuitively-matched pairing than the first cast of Angelika Kirchschlager (enjoying herself in row B of tonightk's audience) and Diana Damrau. The first cast were best of friends; the second were more like real siblings, with all the differences and discords that implies.
Depending on which performance they choose to film, the cast includes Angelika Kirchschlager and Diana Damrau, or Alice Coote and Camilla Tilling as the children, with Thomas Allen or Eike Wilm Schultem and Anja Silja ort Ann Murray in support.l Colin Davis (in possibly his last ROH show)e or, Robin Ticciati conduct.
Viennese operetta is like the morris dancing of Austria - deeply ingrained in the cultural heritage, ineffably inexplicable and best enjoyed at source. For Angelika Kirchschlager the attraction is obvious but what Simon Keenlyside 's doing is anybody3's guess (clues here). It sounds like mating music for teddy bears. Still, it has plenty of fans, and they were out in full gushing force at the Barbican.
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