Pountney’s vivid Simon Boccanegra at Grange Park Opera

Sir Simon Keenlyside (Simon Boccanegra)

Elin Pritchard (Amelia) and Otar Jorjikia (Gabriele Adorno)

Grange Park Opera Chorus

Elin Pritchard (Amelia)

Simon Boccanegra, Act 3

Von Mark Pullinger, 06 Juni 2025

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“vivid stage pictures are created, none greater than the Council Chamber scene”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: The Theatre in the Woods, West Horsley, am 5 Juni 2025

Verdi, Simon Boccanegra

Grange Park Opera

Gianluca Marcianò, Musikalische Leitung

Sir David Pountney, Regie

Ralph Koltai, Bühnenbild

Sue Willmington, Kostüme

Tim Mitchell, Licht

The Gascoigne Orchestra

Grange Park Opera Chorus

Robin Tebbutt, Wiederaufnahmeleitung

Sir Simon Keenlyside, Simon Boccanegra

James Creswell, Jacopo Fiesco

Elin Pritchard, Amelia Grimaldi

Otar Jorjikia, Gabriele Adorno

Jolyon Loy, Paolo Albiani

David Shipley, Pietro

Rosa Sparks, Amelia's maid

Sam Utley, Captain

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****1

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****1

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Mark Pullinger

Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.

Pountney’s vivid Simon Boccanegra finds a welcome new home at the Theatre in the Woods