Page 209 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21

6 November 2020

Imaginative and engaging: Guildhall School's live streamed opera triple bill of
Italian rarities

Wolf-Ferrari: Susanna’s Secret - Olivia Boen
Guildhall School (Photo © Mihaela Bodlovic)

Triple Bill: Wolf-Ferrari, Mascagni, Donizetti; Stephen Medcalf, Dominic Wheeler;
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 4 November 2020

Three Italian on-act rarities in this live-streamed triple bill from the students of
the Guildhall School

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama's opera production this term was an
imaginative solution to the current restrictions. Performed live in a socially distanced
manner and live-streamed from its Silk Street Theatre, the Guildhall School presented
a triple bill of Italian operas, Wolf-Ferrari's Il segreto di Susanna, Mascagni's Zanetto and
Donizetti's Rita in productions directed by Stephen Medcalf, conducted by Dominic
Wheeler and designed by Cordelia Chisholm. We caught the second of four performances
on 4 November 2020 with Olivia Boen, Adam Maxey, Brenton Spiteri, Ella de Jongh, Siân
Griffiths, Laura Lolita Perešivana and Chuma Sijeqa.