Page 496 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024
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09 June 2024
FIRST NIGHT REVIEW
Blond Eckbert review — a terrific
sense of unease in this psychological
thriller
English Touring Opera’s new staging of Judith Weir’s enigmatic opera opens this
year’s Aldeburgh Festival at Snape Maltings
Richard Morrison
Sunday June 09 2024, 4.00pm, The Times
William Morgan as Hugo and Simon Wallfisch as Eckbert in Blond Eckbert
RICHARD HUBERT SMITH
Judith Weir, recently turned 70 and about to end her ten-year stint as Master of the King’s
Music, is a featured composer at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival. The programme includes two
new works from her prolific pen but also several older ones including, to open the festival, one
of her most enigmatic operas. Blond Eckbert is presented in a new staging that English Touring
Opera will take on the road in the autumn.
