Situation comedy, Italian style

Por Charlotte Valori, 04 noviembre 2015

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“a riotous evening of deliciously Italian comedy”

Crítica hecha desde Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Silk Street Theatre, Londres el 2 noviembre 2015

Wolf-Ferrari, Le donne curiose

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Mark Shanahan, Dirección

Stephen Barlow, Dirección de escena

Bethan Langford, Beatrice

Thomas Atkins, Florindo

Katarzyna Balejko, Colombina

Milan Siljanov, Arlecchino

David Ireland, Ottavio

Nicola Said, Rosaura

Josep-Ramon Olivé, Pantalone

Christopher Cull, Lelio

Jennifer Witton, Eleonora

Dominick Felix, Leandro

Eduardo Mas Bacardit, Asdrubale

Andrew Brown, Almorò

James Robinson, Alvise

Łukasz Klimczak, Lunardo

Bertie Watson, Mènego

Jack Holton, Mómolo

Chavdar Mazgalov, Servant

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Respighi’s Lucrezia compels in Guildhall School’s double bill

Dominic Lowe, 3rd November

Pleas for more Respighi operas are answered as the students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama give the UK premiere of Lucrezia, paired with Ethel Smyth's Der Wald.

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Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

Susannah Moody, 6th November

From the spiritual conversion of a Medieval sex-worker, to the Sleeping Beauty tale reimagined, Guildhall stages a Respighi double-bill.

***11

Holst and Weir operas from the Guildhall School of Music

David Truslove, 5th June

Two accomplished performances bring emotional depth only intermittently, but show ample security of singing and playing.

***11

Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School

Mark Valencia, 27th February

Under Dominic Wheeler’s expert baton the musicians, all youthful if not downright young, give a spectacular account of a harrowing score.

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Picture perfect: a fine triple bill from the Guildhall School

Dominic Lowe, 11th November

Massenet, Smyth and Rota are unlikely bedfellows, but in the Guildhall School's Autumn production, a one-act opera by each contributed to a most convincing triple bill, all set around the La Scala Picturehouse in the 1920s.

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Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon outshines Bizet at Guildhall School

David Karlin, 1st November

A double bill of French operettas shows Guildhall students to advantage as well as providing an introduction to Viardot that's well worth the trip.

***11

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.

Situation comedy, Italian style: Wolf-Ferrari's Le donne curiose at Guildhall School