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Dvořák’s Jacobin returns from musical exile to delight Buxton

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“Lester was able to spin legato gloriously in his moving tribute to the music of his homeland”
Reviewed at Buxton Opera House, Buxton on 12 July 2014
Dvořák, The Jacobin
Buxton Festival Opera
Stephen Barlow, Conductor
Stephen Unwin, Director
Jonathan Fensom, Set Designer
Andrew Greenan, Count Harasova
Nicholas Lester, Bohuš
Anne-Sophie Duprels, Julie
Bonaventura Bottone, Benda
Anna Patalong, Terinka
Matthew Newlin, Jiří
James McOran-Campbell, Adolf
Nicholas Folwell, Filip
Daisy Brown, Soprano
Fiona Hymns, Soprano
Norman, Joanna, Soprano
Catarina Sereno, Soprano
Sophie Dicks, Mezzo-soprano
Imogen Garner, Mezzo-soprano
Sinnott, Natalie, Mezzo-soprano
Adam Kowalczyk, Tenor
Onelius, Mikael, Tenor
Leonel Pinheiro, Tenor
Dwyer, Nicolas, Baritone
Jamie Rock, Baritone
Howes, David, Bass
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