Miss Fortune

Synopsis

Judith Weir's contemporary retelling of a Sicilian folk take is about the trials of a young woman from a wealthy family who struggles to make her way in life after falling on hard times.

Our Review:

Keith McDonnell - 12 March 2012

Oh. My. Stars. Let me start by saying that I have fond memories of attending a performance of Judith Weir’s opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom at The Royal Opera House back in 1990 (I think) when Scottish Opera came down for a week’s residence, and three years later admired the slightly dotty Blond Eckbert at ENO. We’ve had to wait almost twenty years for Weir’s latest full-scale opera, Miss Fortune which opened at last year’s Bregenz Festival to lukewarm notices, and last night it received its UK premiere at The Royal Opera, who co-commissioned the piece. It was an outstanding disaster.

It’s hard to know where to start, but as I sat slack-jawed at the sheer awfulness of the entire undertaking, served up in Chen Shi-Zheng’s arty, vacuous staging, I couldn’t help but think of all the operas crying out for a staging at this most prestigious of addresses, that continue to be neglected. Could no one have pulled ...

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