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Past Production Reviews
10⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Director Eloise Lally attacks the piece with wit and verve. To support her, HGO has assembled a brilliant group of young singers and musicians and this version is an ensemble piece par excellence… The HGOAntiqua Orchestra – Seb Gillot directing them from the harpsichord – sounded marvellous”.
This impressive production by HGO…the ability of the ensemble cast to memorise the music and the complex movements combine to produce an impressively professional final result.”
Gheorghe Palcu and Sonny Fielding’s sharply etched Pallante and Lesbo
Was I carried away by the romance? Yes. By the nostalgia of lost youth? Yes. Did I share in the matey good cheer of the young lads? Yes. Did I enjoy seeing La bohème sung by singers of the right sort of age for the characters? For sure. And was I in floods at the end? Absolutely. Job done.
Mozart’s eternal opera buffa Le nozze di Figaro fizzes gloriously in this production from Hampstead Garden Opera. The production is a miracle of maximal effect with minimum material (the stage remains constant throughout) thanks to superb lighting by Jonny Dancinger; space is superbly, imaginatively used, with equally superbly imaginative choreography by Carmine de Amicis.
Seen and Heard International
'As Amore, Stephanie Hershaw, having survived an attempt on her life with a little divine assistance, is in show-stealing form, firing her arrows with puckish naughtiness.'
