La Wally
From: Friday, 29th July 2011
To: Friday, 12 August 2011
Our Review: 
Search for tickets
Use the link below to search for La Wally tickets on your desired date.
We're sorry, it seems that we do not currently sell tickets for this show. Please go directly to the box office.
Our Review:
30 July 2011
Catalani’s La Wally is an opera best known for just one aria – the strange and hauntingly beautiful “Ebben! Ne andrò lontana,” - but it’s far from being a one-hit wonder. It’s full of great tunes and fine vocal opportunities, while dramatically leaving something to be desired. The finale is an alpine avalanche, which is never going to be easy to carry off, no matter how stylized the staging.
Alfredo Catalani was a near contemporary of Puccini’s. Only four years separate them and they even came from the same town, so rivalry was inevitable. It was Catalani’s premature death at the age of 39 that prevented an all out battle between the composers, with his operatic triumph preceding Manon Lescaut by only a year. Puccini had hardly got started by then.
Catalani’s librettist was none other than Luigi Illica who was soon to change his allegiance to Puccini an...
Cast
Gweneth-Ann Jeffers (Wally)
Stephen Richardson (Stromminger)
Heather Shipp (Afra)
Alinka Kozari (Walter)
Adrian Dwyer (Hagenbach)
Stephen Gadd (Gellner)
Charles Johnston (Il Pedone)
Creative
Alfredo Catalani (Music)
Wilhelmine von Hillern (Book)
Luigi Illica (Lyrics)
Opera Holland Park (Producer)
Peter Robinson (Conductor)
Martin Lloyd-Evans (Director)
Jamie Vartan (Design)
Information
|
