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Comedy and seriousness: Young Opera Venture's The Marriage of Figaro in Middlesborough

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Reviewed at Middlesbrough Theatre, Middlesbrough on 14 March 2013
Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
Young Opera Venture
Jane Anthony, Director
John Longstaff, Conductor
Miles Horner, Figaro
Wendy Carr, Susanna
Philip Wilcox, Count Almaviva
Sarah Ogden, Countess Almaviva
Imogen Garner, Marcellina
Matthew Kellett, Doctor Bartolo
Fiona Wilkie, Cherubino
Richard Hansen, Don Basilio
Young Opera Venture Chorus and Orchestra
Irish National Opera’s new Rusalka intrigues more than it convinces
***11
Billy Budd, or the Triumph of Beauty at the Opéra de Lyon
****1
Magnifying Glass: a magnificent Les Enfants terribles in Lille
*****
Opera Australia’s Eugene Onegin shines musically
****1
Siegfried at the RBO: Kosky and Pappano surprise and delight
*****
Hedging its bets: La finta giardiniera at the Royal College of Music
***11
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