The Bear by Walton and Renard by Stravinsky  at the Village Underground, Shoreditch 23 April 2008

‘Frederic Wake-Walker is the brains behind Mahogany Opera, an electrifying young company…This benevolent venue combined with a provocative and arresting staging to make Mahogony’s double bill one of the most exciting and electrifying evenings I’ve spent at the opera in recent seasons. Wake-Walker took Stravinsky’s “Renard” and Walton’s “The Bear” and presented them in tandem without a break‚ so that the first melted effortlessly into the second…it was “Renard” presented in an extraordinary non-naturalistic staging inspired by the stage directions of the great Soviet-era director Vsevolod Meyerhold that lifted the evening and made it something truly special.’

Roderic Dunnet, Opera Magazine

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