Beguiling Britten: GSMD's A Midsummer Night's Dream

Par Francesca Vella, 01 mars 2012

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Critique faite à Barbican Theatre, Londres, le 28 février 2012

Britten, Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

Stephen Barlow, Direction

Martin Lloyd-Evans, Mise en scène

Guildhall School Musicians

Tom Verney, Oberon

Ellie Laugharne, Tytania

Stuart Laing, Lysander

Kathryn McAdam, Hermia

Ashley Riches, Demetrius

Sky Ingram, Helena

Barnaby Rea, Bottom

Alexander Knox, Puck

Trapped in a vice: Il segreto di Susanna and Pagliacci at OHP

Dominic Lowe, 17th July

Joining OHP's 2019 production of Wolf-Ferrari's charming domestic comedy, a blazing new production of Pagliacci delivers everything that one could want from Leoncavallo's infamous opera.

*****

A stylish Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival

David Truslove, 16th June

Entertainment ideal for country house opera-goers, enhanced by some fine singing and excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

****1

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.

****1

A dark-hued double bill of Margot la Rouge and Le Villi at OHP

Mark Valencia, 21st July

Puccini's Giselle-inspired opera is given a superb staging by Martin Lloyd-Evans to deliver Opera Holland Park's banger of the season.

****1

Matrimonial mayhem: Le nozze di Figaro at The Grange Festival

Dominic Lowe, 6th June

Lloyd-Evans' new production of Mozart's classic might be traditional, but there's no lack of astuteness in his direction of his characters. Problems in the pit hinder an otherwise strong musical performance.

****1

Britten's Dream haunts Guildhall School

Roy Westbrook, 1st March

Dominic Wheeler did full justice to Britten’s brilliantly colourful and haunting score right from those first eerie glissandi.

****1

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Francesca Vella

Francesca is a PhD student at KCL, where she is researching Verdi reception in late nineteenth-century Milan. Besides being interested in cultural history and the history of Italian opera, she loves the classical and romantic piano and chamber music repertoire.