Love's not Time's fool: Intermezzo at Garsington

Von David Karlin, 07 Juni 2015

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“the little acting touches are innumerable”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Garsington Opera, High Wycombe, am 6 Juni 2015

Strauss R., Intermezzo

Garsington Opera

Jac van Steen, Musikalische Leitung

Bruno Ravella, Regie

Giles Cadle, Bühnenbild

Ailish Tynan, Anna

Mary Dunleavy, Christine

Sam Furness, Baron Lummer

Oliver Johnston, Kapellmeister Stroh

James Cleverton, A Businessman

Gerard Collett, A Notary

Mark Stone, Robert Storch

Barnaby Rea, A Singer

The Gascoigne Orchestra

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****1

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****1

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****1

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David Karlin, 28th May

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****1

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David Karlin, 29th June

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*****

Garsington Opera's new A Midsummer Night's Dream

Roy Westbrook, 16th June

In the first and last acts, ladies entered with a train still attached to a bolt of cloth, which was then cut to length by an attendant. Was this production brought to the stage in a great hurry, allowing no time for costume fittings?

***11

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.