Zanetto and Gianni Schicchi: Opera Holland Park's Florentine Double Bill

By Francesca Vella, 25 June 2012

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Reviewed at Holland Park Theatre, London on 22 June 2012

Mascagni, Zanetto

Puccini, Gianni Schicchi

Manlio Benzi, Conductor

Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director

Alan Opie, Gianni Schicchi

Anna Patalong, Lauretta

Carole Wilson, Zita

Jung Soo Yun, Rinuccio

Neal Cooper, Gherardo

Sarah Redgwick, Nella

Simon Wilding, Betto di Signa

Francisco Javier Borda, Simone

Charles Johnston, Marco

Catrin Johnsson, La Ciesca

Aidan Smith, Maestro Spinelloccio

John Lofthouse, Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Niall Windass, Gherardino

Dickon Gough, Pinellino

Mark Spyropoulos, Guccio

Patricia Orr, Zanetto

Janice Watson, Sylvia

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Francesca Vella

Francesca is a PhD student at KCL, where she is researching Verdi reception in late nineteenth-century Milan. Besides being interested in cultural history and the history of Italian opera, she loves the classical and romantic piano and chamber music repertoire.