An emotionally powerful Orfeo in Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis, 05 September 2014

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Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 3 September 2014

Monteverdi, L'Orfeo (Orpheus), SV318

Dutch National Opera

Pablo Heras-Casado, Conductor

Sasha Waltz, Director

Beate Borrmann, Costume Designer

Alexander Schwarz, Set Designer

Anna Lucia Richter, Euridice, La musica

Charlotte Hellekant, La messaggiera, La speranza

Luciana Mancini, Proserpina

Georg Nigl, Orfeo

Julián Millán, Apollo

Douglas Williams, Caronte

Konstantin Wolff, Plutone

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Rosemary Carlton-Willis

Rosemary Carlton-Willis is a soprano based in the Netherlands. She has one masters degree in Music (Historical Performance) from the University of York, and a second in Singing from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where she studied in both the Classical and Early Music departments. She has worked for the York Early Music Festival, the National Centre for Early Music and the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall.