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Reviews
Dardanus
"I have nothing but praise for Robert Chevara's staging of the original 1739 version. The whole enterprise was filled with an understanding of period French style and what it takes to translate it to our 21st-century sensibilities. ... Everything was focused on the drama not least in the sexiest sequence of 'Songes' I can imagine..." (Financial Times)
"Robert Chevara's neat, clear, stylish production was deftly managed, with creamy calico 18th-century costumes in the Prologue for Venus and L'Amour and scarlet arrows to hint at the bloodshed ahead. ...Directed at heat ... Allan Claytons's lyrical, powerful Dardanus - most affecting in Lieux funestes - was, I suspect, the inspiration behind this extraordinary project"
(Independent on Sunday)
"As shown by Robert Chevara's shrewed staging Venus and her court of fops soon realise the problem of worshipping love: it's a very messy idol indeed.
Chevara's staging made the most of his bright young things, deftly managing both singers and a useful sextet of dancers through the set pieces, and even negotiating a sea monster without garnering unwanted laughts." (The Times)Madame Butterfly
"Director Robert Chevara put his stamp on the opera from the opening sequence showing early documentary film views of Nagasaki. As the film sequence ran, Butterfly stood alone, illuminated, highlighting the plight of one person set in the past.
Chevara's direction produced some poignant moments as well as some keen commentaries."
(The National Business Review, New Zealand)
"Radamisto
"The producer Robert Chevara served Handel as well as he did Beethoven in his English Touring opera "Fidelio". (Opera)Le Dialogue des Carmelites
"Chevara catches the crisis and chaos inside the order, and his march to the scaffold has terrifying power.
This was a deeply moving occasion" (The Times)Fidelio
"Staging and performance blazed with clarity.
This was one of the many strengths in Robert Chevara's new production." (The Observer)L'Assedio di Calais
"This taut new production by Robert Chevara can only lead us closer to this operas complete re-establishment." (The Guardian)Macbeth
"What a marvelous piece it is, theatrically gripping and musically tuneful, and how forcefully and intelligently Robert Chevara has staged it." (The Telegraph)The Cunning Peasant
"Robert Chevara's apposite production kept the nasty undertow of droit de seigneur and parental abuse in sight, while neither prevented the humor from flowing generously in the comic scenes.
Such commendably perceptive direction..." (The Independant)
"The performances coaxed by Chevara from the pricipals are perfectly judged in their intensity, humor and genuineness. This is high precision work."(The Standard)The Tales of Hoffmann
"If Nicklausses is there to help Hoffmann separate truth from dreams, then the Guildhall's audience badly needed a Nicklausse of its own, so potent was Robert Chevara's production in conjuring a spell of shifting dream, nightmare and ambiguous reality." (Opera)
© Robert Chevara, 2011