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Not a wooden performance in sight: The Adventures of Pinocchio

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“Marta Fontanals-Simmons, utterly convincing as the little wooden boy, with a mezzo just as polished”
Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Silk Street Theatre, London on 4 March 2014
Dove, The Adventures of Pinocchio
Dominic Wheeler, Conductor
Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director
Dick Bird, Set Designer
Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Pinocchio
Anna Gillingham, Blue Fairy
Lauren Zolezzi, Cricket/Parrot
Respighi’s Lucrezia compels in Guildhall School’s double bill
****1
Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill
***11
Holst and Weir operas from the Guildhall School of Music
***11
Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School
****1
Picture perfect: a fine triple bill from the Guildhall School
****1
Pauline Viardot's Cendrillon outshines Bizet at Guildhall School
***11
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