Intérprete: Matthew Stiff

A standout performance by Alison Langer as Gilda lights up an Opera Holland Park season opener marred by illness. 

The director Edward Dick and his designer, Tom Scutt, alternate between realistic and expressionistic images in their creation of grim spectacle.

Julia Burbach's new production lacks poetry in spite of an admirable cast led by Samuel Dale Johnson in the title role.