Ruddigore
From: Wednesday, 3rd March 2010
To: Wednesday, 10 March 2010
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Synopsis
The Wicked Baronets of Ruddigore have been cursed to do one bad deed a day or die in agony. The current incumbent tries to avoid his duties by disguising himself as a farmer, but he is discovered and forced to resume his title. He does his best to do one "bad" deed a day (like forging his own will) until the family portraits come to life to advise him. With some of Sullivan's best tunes and a typically silly plot, including a corps of bridesmaids looking for a wedding. Ruddigore remains one of the most popular of the G&S operas.
Our Review:
Alison Carr - 3 March 2010
“Basingstoke, it is”
Cards on the table, I had never seen an opera until last night. Unless you count Phantom of the Opera. Which I doubt.
So, I had no idea what to expect when I took my seat to see Opera North’s Ruddigore - apparently one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s lesser known operettas.
Things got off to a great start with a very funny silent movie pastiche, setting up the story of beautiful young Hannah who left her love on their wedding day after he admitted to being Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore cursed to commit a crime a day.
Skip forward some years to the same picturesque Cornish village where Dame Hannah now watches over her niece Rose Maybud. Rose loves shy farmer Robin Oakapple, but history may repeat itself as Robin is also a Murgatroyd, presumed dead after...
Cast
Amy Freston (Rose Maybud)
Hal Cazalet (Richard Dauntless)
Heather Shipp (Mad Margaret)
Anne Marie Owens (Dame Hannah)
Richard Burkhard (Sir Despard Murgatroyd)
Steven Page (Sir Roderick Murgatroyd)
Grant Doyle (Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd)
Creative
W.S. Gilbert (Lyrics)
Arthur Sullivan (Music)
Opera North (Company)
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