Respighi’s Lucrezia compels in Guildhall School’s double bill

Manon Ogwen Parry, Gabriella Giulietta Noble, Marianne Ruel and Hannah McKay (Lucrezia)

Lucrezia

Tobias Campos Santiñaque (Collatino) and Redmond Sanders (Tarquinio)

Avery Lafrentz (Iolanthe) in Der Wald

By Dominic Lowe, 05 November 2025

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“a taut work, tightly packed in a bare hour, but the score is characteristically inventive”

Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Silk Street Theatre, London on 3 November 2025

Smyth, Der Wald

Respighi, Lucrezia

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

Dominic Wheeler, Conductor

Stephen Barlow, Director

Jon Morrell, Set Designer, Costume Designer

Simon Bennison, Lighting Designer

Guildhall Symphony Orchestra

Avery Lafrentz, Iolanthe

Seohyun Go, Röschen

Harry Jacques, Heinrich, Bruto

Redmond Sanders, Landgraf Rudolf, Sesto Tarquinio

Oliver Williams, Peter, Arunte, Spurio Lucrezio

Sonny Fielding, Hausirer, Tito, Valerio

Gabriella Giulietta Noble, La voce

Hannah McKay, Lucrezia

Marianne Ruel, Servia

Manon Ogwen Parry, Venilia

Tobias Campos Santiñaque, Collatino

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Dominic Lowe

Dominic Lowe recently completed a degree in Classics, and one of his great interests is the reception of Greece and Rome in opera. A regular opera-goer since his very early teens, he is particularly keen on the hidden operatic gems of the 19th century. He is largely based in the South of England.