Garsington Opera is delighted to announce that on Saturday 6 October, BBC Radio 3’s ‘Opera on 3’, will broadcast the production of its first festival world premiere - The Skating Rink by David Sawer set to a libretto by Rory Mullarkey based on a novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño.
Garry Walker conducts with a cast that includes Grant Doyle (Enric), Susan Bickley (Carmen), Alan Oke (Rookie), Sam Furness (Gaspar), Lauren Zolezzi (Nuria), Ben Edquist (Remo), Claire Wild (Caridad) and Louise Winter (Pilar) with the Garsington Opera Orchestra. The production was directed by Stewart Laing.
Before that, on Friday 14 September at 19.00, Garsington Opera’s production of Mozart’s final opera Die Zauberflöte , directed and designed by Netia Jones will be available online for free on OperaVision for six months at https://operavision.eu/en/library/performances/operas/magic-flute .
This colourful and quirky new production features Louise Alder (Pamina) winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Audience Prize at the 2017 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. The cast includes Benjamin Hulett (Tamino), Jonathan McGovern (Papageno), James Creswell (Sarastro), Sen Guo (Queen of the Night) and Adrian Thompson (Monostatos). The Three Ladies are sung by Katherine Crompton, Marta Fontanals-Simmons and Katie Stevenson. Christian Curnyn conducts with the Garsington Opera Orchestra and Chorus.