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Les Dennis makes his operatic debut in ENO’s mischievous HMS
Pinafore
★★★★☆
Lizzi Gee’s choreography is joyous and admirably performed, especially because it’s mostly not
hired hoofers doing the tapping and hornpipes, but the vivacious ENO chorus and multi-talented
principals such as John Savournin (a brilliant John Cleese-like turn as Captain Corcoran),
Marcus Farnsworth (superbly hearty as the Boatswain) and the astonishing nine-year-old Rufus
Bateman as an urchin “midshipmite” (a character invented by McCrystal) who pops up
everywhere. To December 11; eno.org
Richard Morrison
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Joyce DiDonato emerges from lockdown with an electrifying recital
★★★★☆
Even when her talents were misused or overindulged, we still had that peerless voice, so
eloquently flexible across every register, and that friendliness that led her to praise us for
coming en masse and sitting with strangers.
Geoff Brown
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