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Opera

Wow, this is good: Grange Park Opera's Ivan the Terrible reviewed

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

3 July 2021

9:00 AM

Ivan the Terrible

Grange Park Opera, in rep until 14 July

La Cenerentola

The Grange Festival, in rep until 7 July

There are worse inconveniences than having to wear a face mask to the opera. But there’s one consequence that hadn’t really struck home until an hour into Rimsky-Korsakov’sIvan the Terrible. The citizens of Pskov are massing in the streets. The Tsar’s army is approaching, and Rimsky is building one of those surging Russian crowd scenes: bass-heavy chorus blazing away while ominous bell sounds — basses, horns and rasping gong — shake the orchestra to its bones.

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