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Razor sharp: a bloody Sweeney Todd at Welsh National Opera

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“Janis Kelly... an irresistibly comical, sinister Mrs Lovett”
Reviewed at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff on 8 October 2015
Sondheim, Sweeney Todd
James Holmes, Conductor
James Brining, Director
Colin Richmond, Set Designer
David Arnsperger, Sweeney Todd
Janis Kelly, Mrs Lovett
Jamie Muscato, Anthony Hope
Soraya Mafi, Johanna Baker
Steven Page, Judge Turpin
George Ure, Tobias Ragg
Aled Hall, Beadle Bamford
Charlotte Page, Beggar Woman
Paul Charles Clarke, Adolfo Pirelli
Welsh National Opera Orchestra
Welsh National Opera Chorus
Chris Davey, Lighting Designer
Anna Morrissey, Choreography
George Newton-Fitzgerald, Bass
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