Double Bill to delight.

By Hilary Fisher, 11 June 2011

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Reviewed at Guildhall School of Music & Drama: Silk Street Theatre, London on 9 June 2011

Donizetti, Rita, ou Le mari battu (Deux hommes et une femme)

Tchaikovsky, Iolanta

Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director

Clive Timms, Conductor

Yannis Thavoris, Set Designer

Colin Grenfell, Lighting Designer

Anna Patalong, Rita

Alberto Sousa, Pepé

Victor Sicard, Gasparo

Natalya Romaniw, Iolanta

Koji Terada, Robert

Sioned Gwen Davies, Martha

Ashley Riches, Ibn-Hakia

Matthew Stiff, King René

Stuart Laing, Alméric

Ciprian Droma, Bertrand

Trapped in a vice: Il segreto di Susanna and Pagliacci at OHP

Dominic Lowe, 17th July

Joining OHP's 2019 production of Wolf-Ferrari's charming domestic comedy, a blazing new production of Pagliacci delivers everything that one could want from Leoncavallo's infamous opera.

*****

A stylish Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival

David Truslove, 16th June

Entertainment ideal for country house opera-goers, enhanced by some fine singing and excellent playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

****1

Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School

Mark Valencia, 27th February

Under Dominic Wheeler’s expert baton the musicians, all youthful if not downright young, give a spectacular account of a harrowing score.

****1

A dark-hued double bill of Margot la Rouge and Le Villi at OHP

Mark Valencia, 21st July

Puccini's Giselle-inspired opera is given a superb staging by Martin Lloyd-Evans to deliver Opera Holland Park's banger of the season.

****1

Matrimonial mayhem: Le nozze di Figaro at The Grange Festival

Dominic Lowe, 6th June

Lloyd-Evans' new production of Mozart's classic might be traditional, but there's no lack of astuteness in his direction of his characters. Problems in the pit hinder an otherwise strong musical performance.

****1

Britten's Dream haunts Guildhall School

Roy Westbrook, 1st March

Dominic Wheeler did full justice to Britten’s brilliantly colourful and haunting score right from those first eerie glissandi.

****1

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