An Irish pub setting for Acis and Galatea in Dublin

By Pia Maltri, 06 April 2017

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Reviewed at Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire on 5 April 2017

Handel, Acis and Galatea

Opera Theatre Company

Paul O'Mahony, Set Designer

Catherine Fay, Costume Designer

Susanna Fairbairn, Galatea

Eamonn Mulhall, Acis

Edward Grint, Polyphemus

Andrew Gavin, Damon

Irish Baroque Orchestra

Sinead O'Kelly, Soprano

Peter O'Reilly, Tenor

Fearghal Curtis, Tenor

Cormac Lawlor, Bass

Eithne makes a Dublin comeback

Andrew Larkin, 14th October

Based on Irish mythology, Opera Theatre Company deiver a compelling concert performance of an exceedingly rare Irish opera Eithne

****1

Don Giovanni in a new adaptation by Roddy Doyle

Pia Maltri, 29th September

Roddy Doyle's new translation is ingenious more often than incongruous; John Molloy's Leporello steals the show in the Opera Theatre's Don Giovanni.

***11

Lust, greed and corruption: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Terry Blain, 13th June

Mahagonny surfaces for just the second time in Ireland, in a collaborative production resonating harshly with the country's recent economic history.

****1

Chasing the American Dream: UK premiere for Missy Mazzoli’s Proving Up

Mark Pullinger, 1st June

Amy Lane directs an intimate staging of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s 2018 chamber opera in the compact Milton Court Theatre.

****1

Longborough Festival Opera season starts slow with Orlando

Eleanor Knight, 30th May

Beth Taylor gives the lows and highs of Handel's heroics an almighty, whole-body shakedown in Sinéad O'Neill’s new staging of Handel's Orlando.

***11

Bang! Mozart’s volcano erupts in Opera Holland Park’s Così fan tutte

Peter Quantrill, 28th May

Mount Vesuvius looms over Cecilia Stinton’s compelling new production of Così fan tutte.

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Pia Maltri

Pia first fell head over heels for opera when she was a teenager by listening to recordings of some of the great voices of the past: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mirella Freni, Alfredo Kraus. She holds a degree in Italian Literature and she lives in Rome.