Page 107 - Media Coverage Book - 75th Aldeburgh Festival 2024

Later in the year, ETO and Britten Pears Arts co-produce Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert, a dark
fairy tale of isolation, guilt and despair in a new production directed by Robin Norton-Hale
and conducted by Gerry Cornelius. The production will open the Aldeburgh Festival on 7 June
(cast to be announced soon).

The spring tour opens at London’s Hackney Empire with Manon Lescaut on 24 February
and The Rake’s Progress on 2 March before both shows are toured across England until the
end of May.

More information and tickets can be found on the English Touring Opera website CLICK
HERE.

Manon Lescaut

Manon – Jenny Stafford
Des Grieux – Gareth Morris
Lescaut – Aidan Edwards
Geronte –
Edward Hawkins
Edmondo – Brenton Spiteri
Singer – Cicely Hé
Dance Master – David
Horton
Naval Captain – Amy J Payne
Innkeeper – Edward Jowle
Sergeant – Phil Wilcox

Lamplighter – Julia Mariko

Director and Librettist – Jude Christian
Conductor – Gerry Cornelius
Designer – Charlotte
Henery
Lighting designer – Ben Ormerod

24 February – Hackney Empire, London
9 March – Norwich Theatre Royal, Norwich
11
March – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
15 March – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
23 March –
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape
25 March – Gala Theatre, Durham
4 & 6 April –
Buxton Opera House, Buxton
9 April – Playhouse, Oxford
16 April – Curve Theatre,
Leicester
19 April – York Theatre Royal, York
27 April – Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
1 &
3 May – Cambridge Arts Theatre, Cambridge
10 May – Lighthouse, Poole
18 May – Hall for
Cornwall, Truro
23 & 25 May – Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter
27 May – Bath Theatre
Royal, Bath

The Rake’s Progress

Anne Trulove – Nazan Fikret
Tom Rakewell – Frederick Jones
Nick Shadow – Jerome Knox

Father Trulove – Trevor Eliot Bowes
Baba – Lauren Young
Mother Goose – Amy J Payne

Sellem – Robin Bailey
Keeper of the Madhouse – Masimba Ushe

Director – Polly Graham
Conductor – Jack Sheen
Designer – April Dalton
Lighting designer
– Ben Ormerod