The twist at Anne's ending is typical of the exhilarating stage-craft and masterly narrative compression in a double-bill that must surely have a long life beyond Stratford.
In June the Philharmonic followed up with another exhilarating staged opera, Janacek's "Cunning Little Vixen," again directed by Mr. Fitch. 1 2 Next Page ».
On Saturday night at City Center, the company presents the final performance of its fourth and last production of the 2012-13 season: the director Christopher Alden's zany, slightly surreal and exhilarating staging of Offenbach's operetta "La Périchole".
All told, though, this is an exhilarating staging with a wonderful cast that seems inspired by Mr. Alden's concept for this tale of two street singers, Périchole and her boyfriend, Piquillo, who get entangled with the outlandish viceroy of Peru.
★ 'Anna Nicole' (Saturday, Tuesday, Wednesday, next Friday and Sept. 28) In an ambitious co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, the New York City Opera is opening its season with this exhilarating staging of the British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage's audacious, entertaining and, in its strange way, wrenching recent opera.
Anyone who saw Richard Eyre's great 1982 National Theatre version will always have that as a favourite, but Gordon Greenberg's exhilarating Chichester staging comes in, unlike Nathan's horse tips, a very close second.
At American Repertory, he established his reputation for exhilarating, slick choreography, staging 17 ballets, including a popular version of Maurice Sendak's book "Where the Wild Things Are".
(Steve Smith) ★ 'Orpheus' (Sunday) The New York City Opera ends its first nomadic season making big news with a small production: the director Rebecca Taichman's exhilarating modern-dress staging of Telemann's little-known 1726 opera "Orpheus," in its New York premiere.
We were little well-behaved English wallflowers, and here she was barking out, 'Just move, kids!' Being given permission to tear across the stage was exhilarating".
Equatorial Guinea deserve a mention too – their progress from the group stage was exhilarating and played out to remarkable levels of volume, and not even their fortunate win over Tunisia could completely silence the feelgood story.
