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Robert Carsen's 28-year-old Dream conquers a new fan base in Philadelphia

By Susan Gould, 13 February 2019
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“I was hooked!”
Reviewed at Academy of Music, Philadelphia on 8 February 2019
Programme
Britten, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Performers
Opera Philadelphia
Corrado Rovaris, Conductor
Robert Carsen, Director
Michael Levine, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Tim Mead, Oberon
Anna Christy, Tytania
Miltos Yerolemou, Puck
Georgia Jarman, Helena
Siena Licht Miller, Hermia
Brenton Ryan, Lysander
Johnathan McCullough, Demetrius
Evan Hughes, Theseus
Allyson McHardy, Hippolyta
Matthew Rose, Bottom
Miles Mykkanen, Flute
Patrick Guetti, Snug
George Somerville, Snout
Zachary Altman, Starveling
Brent Michael Smith, Quince
Opera Philadelphia Orchestra
Emmanuelle Bastet, Revival Director
Sir Matthew Bourne, Choreography
Shelby Williams, Revival choreography
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Susan Gould
Susan Gould
Philadelphia native Susan Gould has been writing professionally about classical music since her Barnard College years in New York. She has written for both American and European publications, primarily during fifteen years in Europe, and has done liner notes for recordings and program notes for opera companies and orchestras. Among those she has interviewed have been Sills, Tebaldi, Popp and Fleming; Bumbry, Ludwig, Fassbaender, and von Stade; del Monaco, Kraus and Pavarotti; Prey, Morris and Ramey; Muti, Abbado, Giulini, Sawallisch, and Eschenbach. Fluent in Italian, German and French, she has coached both student and professional singers in foreign-language diction since 1980.