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| Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro – Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Marcio da Silva, Joshua Furtado-Mendes – Ensemble OrQesta at Arcola Theatre’s Grimeborn Festival, 2024 |
Ensemble OrQuesta, artistic director Marcio da Silva, whom we last heard at the Grimeborn Festival in 2024 in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, with Marcio da Silva both directing and playing Figaro [see my review], has announced its 2025 season.
In March, Marcio da Silva will be directing ‘a provocative and thought-provoking’ version of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Cockpit Theatre with Oshri Segev in the title role plus Flavio Lauria, Helen May, Rosemary Carlton-Willis, Anna-Luise Wagner, and Joshua Furtado-Mendes. And they will be back at Grimeborn in 2025 with a production yet to be announced.
The Ensemble OrQuesta Opera Academy, dedicated to the training of the new generation of opera singers, is presenting three production, Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Christ Church, Hastings in March, a double bill of Handel’s Acis and Galatea ;and Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Cockpit Theatre in May, and Handel’s Teseo at the Cockpit Theatre in June.
Full details from the Ensemble OrQuesta website.
.png?w=670&resize=670,446&ssl=1 "Letting in the Light: from Rameau's Pygmalion & Wagner's Parsifal to Christian Forshaw, Anna Semple and Schumann's Kerner Lieder at Temple Music")
