Austen-tastic opera: Mansfield Park, Waterperry Opera Festival

By Charlotte Valori, 30 August 2018

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“full-company choral moments felt almost naughtily sumptuous”

Reviewed at Waterperry House, Oxford on 18 August 2018

Dove, Mansfield Park

Waterperry Opera Festival

Ashley Beauchamp, Conductor

Rebecca Meltzer, Director

Flora Macdonald, Fanny Price

David Horton, Henry Crawford

Eleanor Sanderson-Nash, Mary Crawford

Andrea Tweedale, Aunt Norris

Sarah Champion, Julia Bertram

Charlotte Hoather, Maria Bertram

Philip Wilcox, Sir Thomas Bertram

Emily Gray, Lady Bertram

Milo Harries, Edmund Bertram

Lawrence Thackeray, Mr Rushworth

Dove's Mansfield Park positively fizzes in Marylebone

Nick Boston, 8th July

A uniformly strong cast and pianists effortlessly combine comedy and emotion in Dove's Mansfield Park from Waterperry Opera.

*****

Ariel takes flight at Waterperry Opera Festival

Roy Westbrook, 13th August

With a cast of six and orchestra of seven, Waterperry Opera treats us to a new chamber opera, and one with music by Mozart.

****1

Blissful Mansfield Park in Auckland

Simon Holden, 21st April

Dove’s masterful adaptation, combined with an ebullient and characterful rendition by New Zealand Opera, make for a very effective and at times, very moving, afternoon at the opera.

*****

Dove's Mansfield Park positively fizzes in Marylebone

Nick Boston, 8th July

A uniformly strong cast and pianists effortlessly combine comedy and emotion in Dove's Mansfield Park from Waterperry Opera.

*****

Opera Holland Park: colour and laughter as Figaro opens the season

Stephen Pritchard, 1st June

Amid all the18th-century flummery, contemporary touches abound as the OHP's post-pandemic season opens.

***11

Ariel takes flight at Waterperry Opera Festival

Roy Westbrook, 13th August

With a cast of six and orchestra of seven, Waterperry Opera treats us to a new chamber opera, and one with music by Mozart.

****1

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.