Performer: Will Crutchfield

The recently formed Teatro Nuovo provide fine entertainment with Bellini's rarely performed second opera.

Maestro Crutchfield carefully underlined the transitional character of the music, neither Classical nor Romantic.

Under Will Crutchfield’s direction the festival has focused on the rediscovery of forgotten 19th-century Italian works and celebrates the legacy of the bel canto era. 

A group of excellent singers and the Orchestra of St Luke's led by Will Crutchfield succeeded in presenting a moving concert performance of Poulenc's gut-wrenching opera.