Jonathan Dove
Figaro gets an update and twist at Waterperry Festival Opera
- 15th August 2022
- Reviews
- Adam Maxey
- ALison Langer
- Annie Rilley
- Bertie Baignet
- Charlotte Henery
- Edmud Danon
- Eleanor Sanderson-Nash
- Figures in the Garden
- Guy Withers
- Isabelle Kettle
- Jerome Knox
- Jessica Cale
- Jonathan Dove
- Katherine Crompton
- Lawrence Thackeray
- Marriage of Figaro
- Oxford County Youth Orchestra
- Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
- Waterperry Opera Festival
I am late to the party in only discovering what a wonderful experience opera (and dance) is at Waterperry Opera Festival, now enjoying its fifth season at the gorgeous Oxfordshire gardens that gives it its name. All the summer opera festivals have their own feel and what made Waterperry distinctive on this first visit was,…
Mansfield Park in an idyllic setting
Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton’s Mansfield Park has been presented in a plethora of performance spaces since first staged in 2011. However, it is difficult to image a more idyllic and ideal venue than the elegant ballroom of Waterperry House which becomes part of the holistic experience of this charming take on the Jane…