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BRUNO RAVELLA

Opera Director

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Guillaume Tell

Designer Alex Eales - Costume designer Sussie Juhlin-Wallén - Lighting Designer Christopher Ash - Choreographer Carmine de Amicis

Conductor Francesco Lanzillotta

Jean-Sébastien Bou - Olga Kulchynska - Julien Dran - Elisabeth Boudreault - Géraldine Chauvet - Frédéric Caton - Luigi de Donato - Sahy Ratia - Jean Miannay - Marc Scoffoni - Warren Kempf

Photography Carole Parodi

Salome

Designer Leslie Travers - Lighting Designer Ciarán Bagnall - Choreographer Liz Roche

Conductor Fergus Sheil

Sinéad Campbell Wallace - Vincent Wolfsteiner - Imelda Drumm - Tómas Tómasson - Alex McKissick - Doreen Curran - Julian Close - Lukas Jakobski - Christopher Bowen - Andrew Masterson - William Pearson - Aaron O’Hare - Eoghan Desmond - Wyn Pencarreg - Eoin Foran - Kevin Neville - Leanne Fitzgerald

Photography Pato Cassinoni

Polifemo

Designer Anne Marie Woods - Lighting Designer D.M. Wood

Conductor Emmanuelle Haïm with Le concert d’Astrée

Franco Fagioli, Madison Nonoa, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Delphine Galou, José Coca Loza, Alysia Hanshaw.

Laurène Andrieu, Luc Cers, Antoni Cijak, Maxime Junca, Bruno Roseau, Mickael Timm

Photography Klara Beck

Zoraida di Granata

Zoraida di Granata, Donizetti - Wexford Festival Opera

Designer Gary McCann Lighting Designer Daniele Naldi

Conductor Diego Ceretta

Photos (c) Clive Barda

Claudia Boyle, Konu Kim, Matteo Mezzaro, Rachel Croash, Julian Henao Gonzalez, Matteo Guerzè, Luisa Baldinetti, Miryam Tomé

Ariadne auf Naxos

Ariadne auf Naxos, Richard Strauss - Garsington Opera

The Observer ***** “an unforgettable evening” - The Guardian **** “breathtakingly effective and beautiful” - The Telegraph **** - Bachtrack ***** “Bruno Ravella’s new production proves that if you embrace the contradictions rather than fighting them, the result can be pure, sublime operatic magic” - The arts desk ***** “golden thread leads to deep emotion” - The Times **** “serious Strauss hits the head and heart” - The Mail on Sunday ***** - Musical America ‘With much to say, and intriguing ways to say it, this new Ariadne auf Naxos is another feather in Garsington’s cap” - Hugh Canning from Operalogue “This Ariadne reaches for the Stars”

Designer Giles Cadle Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth Choreography Carmine de Amicis Clown consultants Coral Bevan and Ricky Hunt

Conductor Mark Wigglesworth

Photos (c) Clive Barda/Craig Fuller/Julian Guidera

Natalya Romaniw, Young Woo Kim, Jennifer France, Polly Leech, William Dazeley, John Graham-Hall, Marcus Farnsworth, Innocent Masuku, Ossian Huskinson, Richard Pinkstone, Claire Lees, Siân Griffiths, Harriet Eyley, Daniel Vening, Jonathan Eyers, Zahid Siddiqui, Walter van Dyk

Stiffelio

Stiffelio, Giuseppe Verdi - Opéra national du Rhin

Winner in the Renaissance category of the Forum Opera awards 2021

Designer Hannah Clark Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth Movement Carmine de Amicis Video Julie-Anne Weber

Conductor Andrea Sanguinetti

Choeur de l’Opéra national du Rhin
Chef de choeur Alessandro Zuppardo

Photos (c) Klara Beck

Jonathan Tetelman, Hrachuhí Bassénz, Dario Solari, Tristan Blanchet, Önay Köse, Sangbae Choï, Clémence Baïz

Der Rosenkavalier

Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss - Garsington Opera

‘Opera of the year’ in the Classical and Opera 2021 section - Culture Whisper
#22 in The Telegraph’s “100 best cultural events of 2021”

The Guardian **** The independent ***** The stage ***** Financial Times **** The Telegraph **** Daily Mail ***** Culturewhisper ***** The arts desk **** Bachtrack ****

Designer Gary McCann - Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth

Conductor Jordan de Souza

Garsington Opera Chorus
Children’s chorus

Hannah Hipp, Miah Persson, Derrick Ballard, Madison Leonard, Richard Burkhard, Kitty Whately, Colin Judson, Oliver Johnston, Rebecca von Lipinski, Kieran Rayner, Julian Close, Alexander Aldren, Richard Pinkstone, Zoe Drummond, Flora Macdonald, Gabriella Bellenes, Meinir Wyn Roberts, Osian Wyn Bowen, Glen Cunningham, James Atkinson, Timothy Blore, Guy Elliott, Edward Robinson, David Horton, Mark Nathan, Seumas Begg, James Geidt, Joe Chalmers, George Nearn Stuart

Rigoletto

Rigoletto, Verdi - Opera Theatre of St Louis

Designer Alex Eales
Costumes Mark Bouman
Lighting Designer Christopher Akerlind
Choreographer Seán Curran

Conductor Roberto Kalb

Roland Wood, So Young Park, Joshua Wheeker, Christian Zaremba, Lindsay Ammann, Nicholas Newton, Heeseung Chae, Ryan Bryce Johnson, William Guanbo Su, Rehanna Thelwell, Lisa Marie Rogali, Jamie Groote, Randell McGee

Photos ©J. David Levy except 1, 10, 11, 17, 25 Eric Woolsey

La Belle Hélène

La Belle Hélène, Offenbach - Opéra National de Lorraine
Designer
Giles Cadle
Costume designer Gabrielle Dalton
Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth
Choreography Philippe Giraudeau

Conductor Laurent Campellone

Mireille Lebel, Philippe Talbot, Éric Huchet, Franck Leguérinel, Boris Grappe, Yete Queiroz, Raphaël Brémard, Christophe Poncet de Solages, Virgile Frannais, Léonie Renaud, Elisabeth Gillming, Sarah Defrise

Falstaff

***** The Times ***** The Independent *****Express *****DailyMail
**** The FT **** What’s on **** The Stage **** Bachtrack

Nominated at the South Bank Sky Awards in the Opera category.
Nominated ‘Outstanding achievement in a New Opera Production’ by the Broadway World UK

Falstaff, Verdi - Garsington Opera
Designer
Giles Cadle
Lighting Designer Malcolm Rippeth

Conductor Richard Farnes

Henry Waddington, Mary Dunleavy, Richard Burkhard, Victoria Simmonds, Yvonne Howard, Soraya Mafi, Oliver Johnston, Colin Judson, Adrian Thompson, Nicholas Crawley, Ansh Shetty

Photos ©Clive Barda

Werther

WINNER Prix de la critique Claude Rostand 2017/2018

Werther, Massenet - Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy
Designer
Leslie Travers
Lighting Designer Linus Fellbom

Conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni

Edgaras Montvidas, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Philippe-Nicolas Martin, Dima Bawab, Marc Barrard, Eric Vignau, Erick Freulon

La Boheme

La Boheme, Puccini - Opera di Firenze
Designer
Tiziano Santi
Costumes Angela Giulia Toso
Lighting Designer D.M. Wood

Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa

Maria Mudryak, Matteo Lipi, Benjamin Cho, Angela Nisi, Andrea Vicenzo Bonsignore, Goran Jurič, William Hernandez, Alessandro Calamai, Carlo Messeri

Intermezzo

Intermezzo, Strauss - Garsington Opera

Designer Giles Cadle
Lighting Designer Bruno Poet

Conductor Jac van Steen

Mary Dunleavy, Mark Stone, Sam Furness, Ailish Tynan, Benjamin Bevan, Sarah Redgwick, Oliver Johnston, James Cleverton, Gerard Collett, Barnaby Rea, Anna Sideris, Louis Hynes, Charlotte Sutherland, Elka Lee-Green, Alice Devine, Nathanael James, Jake Lindsay, Shaun Mendum, Ged Petkunas

Photos ©Mike Hoban

L'heure espagnole

L'heure espagnole, Ravel - Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy

Designer Annemarie Woods
Lighting designer D.M. Wood

Conductor Michael Balke

Éléonore Pancrazi, Gilen Goicoechea, Jean-Michel Richer, Thibault de Damas, David Margulis

 

Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi, Puccini - Opéra National de Lorraine, Nancy

Designer Annemarie Woods
Lighting designer D.M. Wood

Conductor Michael Balke

Adrien Barbieri, Jérémie Schütz, Laura Holm, Yaël Raanan Vandor, Bozhidar Bozhkilov, David Margulis, Jennifer Michel, Gilen Goicoechea, Oleg Loza, Éléonore Pancrazi, Thibault de Damas, Alejandro Gábor, Lancelot Nomura, Mathieu Gourlet, Élisée Alroy/Julien Nancey, Yves Breton

 

Guillaume Tell

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Salome

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Polifemo

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Zoraida di Granata

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Ariadne auf Naxos

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Stiffelio

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Der Rosenkavalier

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Rigoletto

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La Belle Hélène

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Falstaff

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Werther

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La Boheme

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Intermezzo

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L'heure espagnole

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Gianni Schicchi

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