Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon outshines Bizet at Guildhall School

Par David Karlin, 02 novembre 2021

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“it bears all the signs of an experienced composer very much in control of every effect”

Critique faite à Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Silk Street Theatre, Londres, le 1 novembre 2021

Bizet, Le Docteur Miracle

Viardot-García, Cendrillon (orch. Amy Crankshaw)

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Dominic Wheeler, Direction

Ashley Dean, Mise en scène

Cordelia Chisholm, Décors, Costumes

Kevin Treacy, Lumières

Ellie Neate, Laurette, La Fée

Amy Holyland, Véronique

Innocent Masuku, Silvio aka Pasquin aka le docteur Miracle, Le Comte Barigoule

Jack Holton, Le podestat de Padoue, Le Baron de Pictordu

Erin Gwyn Rossington, Maguelonne

Cleo Lee-McGowan, Marie (Cendrillon)

Laura Fleur, Armelinde

Florian Panzieri, Le Prince Charmant

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.

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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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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.

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.