Charlie Edwards’s Idomeneo gets four stars
A new production of Idomeneo, directed and designed by Charlie Edwards for Grange Park, has been given four stars by The Guardian: ‘It’s a slow burner of an evening, but the cast clearly understand the meaning of the text; dramatic intensity builds to a final act of tremendous power.’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/jun/04/idomeneo-review Andrew…
Alex Eales designs Cosi for Opera Holland Park
Alex Eales has designed authentically 18th century country-house set and costumes for Mozart’s Cosi fan Tutte at Opera Holland Park. Giving the production five stars in the Standard, Nick Kimberley said: ‘Alex Eales’s designs are dressed for the 18th century, and the cast acts convincingly within them. Better still, they…
Brigitte Reiffenstuel’s costumes for 1950s Falstaff at ROH
Robert Carsen’s new production of Verdi’s Falstaff, which transposes the 1590s into the 1950s – one Elizabethan era to another, opened this month at the Royal Opera House, with costumes designed by Brigitte Reiffenstuel. Confessing that she enjoyed this ‘buoyant and vivacious production’ more than she expected, Fiona Maddocks in The Observer noted how…
Uncle Vanya at the Print Room designed by Bill Dudley
In one of the many glowing reviews for this new production of Chekhov, Susannah Clapp opened her review for The Observer by noting the impact of Bill Dudley‘s design: ‘Lucy Bailey’s lovely Uncle Vanya is played in the round and with a twist; the oatmeal and fawn design by William Dudley hangs family portraits at…
The Damnation of Faust at ENO
The ENO production of The Damnation of Faust, restaged by co-director Leah Hausmann, has opened in Palermo, Sicily. Click here to read reviews.
New lighting design by Jon Clark
Jon Clark has designed the lighting for The Houes of Bernarda Alba, which opens at the Almeida on Thursday 26th Jan, in a new version by Emily Mann.