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5 November 2019

05 Nov 2019

Haydn's La fedeltà premiata impresses at the

Guildhall School of Music and Drama

‘Exit, pursued by an octopus.’ The London Underground insignia in the
centre of the curtain-drop at the Guildhall School of Music’s Silk Street
Theatre, advised patrons arriving for the performance of Joseph

Haydn’s La fedeltà premiata (Fidelity Rewarded, 1780) that their Tube
journey had terminated in ‘Arcadia’ - though this was not the pastoral
idyll of Polixenes’ Bohemia but a parody of paradise more notable for its

amatory anarchy than any utopian harmony.

Haydn: La fedeltà premiata, Guildhall School of Music and Drama

A review by Claire Seymour

Above: Chorus, Matthew Palmer (Perruchetto) and Adam Maxey (Melibeo)

Photo credit: Mihaela Bodlovic