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Artiste: Orpha Phelan

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La Bohème et son éternelle émotion à l'Opéra de Montpellier

Long Long (Rodolfo) et Adriana Ferfecka (Mimì) © Marc Ginot
Présenté dans une mise scène d'Orpha Phelan très respectueuse du livret, l'opéra de Puccini est magnifié par les inspirations du chef américain Roderick Cox, futur directeur musical de l'institution.

A noble Norma trapped in a hollow dystopia

Salome Jicia (Norma) © Ruth Medjber
Salome Jicia delivers a vocally impressive and emotionally committed Norma, but Orpha Phelan’s post-apocalyptic staging fatally weakens Bellini’s sacred tragedy.

Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums

Jonathan Brown (Leone) © Craig Fuller
Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.

Orpha Phelan delivers farcical Donizetti at the Wexford Festival Opera

Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali © Patricio Cassinoni
Superlative singing, hilarious antics and an energetic production make Donizetti's Le Convenience ed inconvenience an exhilarating success. 

A magnificent Bohème at Irish National Opera

Merūnas Vitulskis (Rodolfo) and Celine Byrne (Mimì) © Ros Kavanagh
Orpha Phelan directs a terrific cast of singers in an inventive and faithful production making for an evening to remember. 

Riotous nonsense and royal nuptials: Lalla-Roukh at Wexford

Niamh O’Sullivan (Mirza) and Gabrielle Philiponet (Lalla-Roukh) © Clive Barda | ArenaPAL
Orpha Phelan has fun staging Félicien David’s opéra comique, moving the action from Kashmir and Samarkand to Leila O’Rourke’s Tea Emporium.
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DublinNormaNouvelle production

Salome Jicia (Norma) © Ruth Medjber
Bellini: Norma
Maurizio Benini; Orpha Phelan; Irish National Opera; Madeleine Boyd; Matthew Haskins; Irish National Opera Orchestra