Cavalli’s delightful L’Ormindo graces new Globe playhouse

By Francesca Vella, 30 March 2014

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Reviewed at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London on 26 March 2014

Cavalli, L'Ormindo

The Royal Opera

Christian Curnyn, Conductor

Kasper Holten, Director

Anja Vang Kragh, Costume Designer

Samuel Boden, Ormindo

Ed Lyon, Amidas

Joélle Harvey, Sicle, La Fortuna

Graeme Broadbent, Ariadenus

Susanna Hurrell, Erisbe, L'Armonia

Rachel Kelly, Mirinda

Harry Nicoll, Eryka

Ashley Riches, Osman

James Laing, Nerillus, Cupid

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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.