Classical and Jazz: Latest Listings > September 2
Published: 02 September 2010
by SEBASTIAN TAYLOR
JONATHAN will be ruling the London opera world in coming months when four of his productions are revived by the Royal Opera House and the English National Opera.
Indeed, the ROH has chosen two of his productions to launch its new season.
First up next week on Friday, September 10, will be his 1995 take on Cosi Fan Tutte, that updates Mozart’s opera from the 18th-century to the present time. It’s been an ROH hit with six revivals since 1995, the most recent being last January.
Two days later, on Sunday September 12, his production of Donizetti’s upstairs/ downstairs domestic comedy Don Pasquale will take to the ROH stage. The production dates from 2001 and it’s been revived twice since then.
These two operas are the only ones that Miller has directed for the ROH so far.
Over at the ENO, there are going to be two Miller productions. Next month, opening on October 18, his production of Puccini’s ever-popular La Boheme is being revived nearly a year since its premiere.
Then, four months later, his extremely popular 1986 production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado is being revived for the 10th time.
Most of Miller’s opera work has been with ENO over the past 20 years or so, starting with Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw in 1979.
Overall, he’s directed 14 operas for the ENO, the most recent being Donizetti’s L’Elixir de l’Amour last January.
Other Miller productions still in the ENO repertoire are Rigoletto (1982) and The Barber of Seville (1987).