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Designed by Soutra Gilmour, Olivia Fuchs’s unflinching 2016 production opened the season and ignited debate in the press and online over the grotesque exploitation of the title character, played by Anne Sophie Duprels with “almost terrifying intensity” (Tim Ashley, The Guardian).
A rare opera needs its champions. Somebody at Opera Holland Park clearly loves Mascagni’s Iris, a pioneering Japanese-themed opera from 1898, predating Puccini’s far better known Madam Butterfly.
Opera Holland Park opens its doors once again for summer festivities, this time with Pietro Mascagni’s Iris, which may not have the kudos of his Cavalleria rusticana but is worth catching. Iris was first-launched in Rome in November 1898 conducted by the composer.
8 Ιουν 2016 · Iris review, Opera Holland Park, London, 2016. “A courageous staging” Reviews Jun 8, 2016 by George Hall Opera Holland Park, London. Anne Sophie Duprels in Iris at Opera Holland Park....
Holland Park Opera Presents Iris a Little Known Verismo Gem by Mascagni – Seen and Heard International. 09/06/2016 by Colin Clarke. United Kingdom Mascagni, Iris (sung in Italian): Soloists, Holland Park Opera Chorus, City of London Sinfonia/Stuart Stratford (conductor), Opera Holland Park, London, 7.6.2016. (CC)
8 Ιουν 2016 · Iris, Opera Holland Park. Nasty child-abuse melodrama set to Mascagni's inappropriately lush music. by David Nice Wednesday, 08 June 2016. Iris (Anne Sophie Duprels) tries to fend off relentless Osaka (Noah Stewart) All images by Robert Workman.
8 Ιουν 2016 · She has the scantily-clad Iris clutch a rag doll and look up in innocent incomprehension at the towering, half-naked Osaka who—let’s not mince words—abducts, grooms and then attempts to rape her under the guise of a tenor’s traditional seduction aria.
