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| Donizetti: L’elisir d’amore – Oskar McCarthy as Dulcamara in 2021 – Waterperry Opera Competition |
For John Savournin’s first season as inventive director of Waterperry Opera Competition, the corporate will probably be performing Puccini’s La Bohème and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore as its fundamental stage productions. Each works will probably be sung in English. La Bohème is receiving its first manufacturing on the Competition while they carried out L’elisir d’amore in 2021 in a manufacturing by Dan Ayling [see my review].
The corporate goals to construct on the success of its record-breaking 2025 season which noticed unprecedented viewers turnout and the Competition’s highest-ever promoting fundamental stage manufacturing.
La Bohème will probably be directed by Ruth Knight whose manufacturing of Handel’s Rodelinda opened at Garsington Opera this summer time [see my review]. Bertie Baigent, the Competition’s co-founder and musical director, conducts with designs by Jennifer Gregory, who designed the 2025 manufacturing of Handel’s Semele [see my review].
L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) see director John Wilkie returning to Waterperry for the third yr, having directed Mozart’s Don Giovanni in 2025 and Rossini’s The Barber of Seville earlier than that. L’elisir d’amore will reunite Wilkie with the artistic crew answerable for Don Giovanni, designer Ceci Calf and lighting designer Jake Wilshire. The conductor is Charlotte Politi.
The total 2026 programme, together with household performances and additional site-specific productions, will probably be introduced in January. Precedence reserving will open in early March.
Additional particulars from the Competition’s web site.
