The only deficiency seemed perhaps the lack of a vibrant chest register for the scenes of seduction and fortune-telling. Timbaliuk is slender and elegant, and a very good actor, really one of the best players of the part we have seen.
She comes from the opera house at Odessa and made an extremely effective interpreter. The Carmen, Katerina Timbaliuk, was touring the UK for the first time. Vasylenko cannot previously have had such impact on the audience. Previously trained in Lviv, with periods in Odessa and even Donbass in the Donetsk region, he is now based in Kyiv. The excellent conductor, Vasyl Vasylenko, has toured here before. This was one of the best orchestras these tours have presented. The woodwind solos in the various interludes were also beautifully played. The orchestra began the evening playing the prelude at an impressive speed, which was repeated in the final act.
The chorus sang and danced with plenty of spirit. It was less appropriate for the central inn and mountain scenes, but the performers worked well to make those effective. The impressive permanent set was effective at representing the streetscape of Seville at the start and the bull-ring at the end. This was an entirely appropriate way to end a performance that showed these artists at their best. At the end of the evening the Ukrainian flag was produced on stage, and the company struck up with a highly emotional rendering of their national anthem as the audience stood and cheered. The Perth Concert Hall, hosting the company for the first time on Wednesday, was crowded, and the reception was enthusiastic from the start. It is impossible to imagine the stress under which these Ukrainian singers and orchestra from the opera house at Kyiv have been living, performing far for home while their families are in constant danger as parts of their country are attacked by Russian armed forces. The present visit, under the management of Senbla, began in January and ends this Sunday. Ellen Kent has been bringing companies from Eastern Europe to tour the UK for many years. On this occasion, however, that is essential. It is unusual, to say the least, to lead discussion of an operatic performance by reference to current events.
Dundee and Aberdeen missed out on this occasion. All three works were seen in Edinburgh, Butterfly and Carmen in Glasgow, and Carmen alone in Perth, on the company's first visit to that city. Three popular operas were given - by Bizet ( Carmen) and Puccini ( Tosca, Madama Butterfly). A week was spent in Scotland, from Thursday, 28 April to Wednesday, 4 May. Carmen 2022 Ellen Kent Productions Read more about the opera CarmenĮllen Kent and Opera International, in collaboration with Ollie Rosenblatt's Senbla organization, made a welcome return to Scotland for the first time since the onslaught of the Covid pandemic.
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