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Performer: Rachel Roper

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WitneyGrétry Zemira e Azor

Bampton Classical Opera
Grétry: Zemira e Azor
Andrew Griffiths; Jeremy Gray; Bampton Classical Opera; Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera; Ffion Edwards; Gwilym Bowen; Rachel Roper

TetburyGrétry Zemira e Azor

Bampton Classical Opera
Grétry: Zemira e Azor
Andrew Griffiths; Jeremy Gray; Bampton Classical Opera; Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera; Ffion Edwards; Gwilym Bowen; Rachel Roper

LondonGrétry Zemira e Azor

Bampton Classical Opera
Grétry: Zemira e Azor
Andrew Griffiths; Jeremy Gray; Bampton Classical Opera; CHROMA; Ffion Edwards; Gwilym Bowen; Rachel Roper

GlyndebourneThe Marriage of Figaro

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Bertie Baigent; Mariame Clément; Glyndebourne Autumn; Julia Hansen; Paule Constable; Glyndebourne Sinfonia
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Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

Miryam Tomè (Angel), Kateřina Kněžíková (Kátya) and Rachael Wilson (Varvara) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Marc Brenner
Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates. 
***11
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Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

Yolisa Ngwexana (The Blue Fairy) © David Monteith-Hodge | Photographise
From the spiritual conversion of a Medieval sex-worker, to the Sleeping Beauty tale reimagined, Guildhall stages a Respighi double-bill.
***11
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Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School

Michael Lafferty-Smith (Joseph), Jacob Harrison and Emyr Lloyd Jones (Guards) © David Monteith
Under Dominic Wheeler’s expert baton the musicians, all youthful if not downright young, give a spectacular account of a harrowing score. 
****1
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