Organization

Singer

Soprano

Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Béatrice

Tenor

Paul Appleby

Bénédict

Hélène Guilmette

Héro

Bass

Frédéric Caton

Don Pedro

Baritone

Philippe Sly

Claudio

Lionel Lhote

The Archbishop

Contralto

Katarina Bradić

Ursule

Spoken

Georges Bigot

Léonato

Stage director

Laurent Pelly

Set designer

Barbara de Limburg

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Duane Schuler

Conductor

Antonello Manacorda

Sophie Karthäuser

Paul O'Neill

Second Servant

Assistant Director

Paul Higgins

Dramaturge

Agathe Mélinand

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Charles Meunier

A Messenger

Paul Sheridan

Un tabellion

Béatrice et Bénédict -  (Beatrice and Benedict)

United Kingdom

Opera House

Ebert Room

Béatrice et Bénédict by H. Berlioz, from Glyndebourne Festival Opera, performed at Glyndebourne Festival Theatre, Glyndebourne, 2016. Directed by Laurent Pelly, conductor Antonello Manacorda, starring Philippe Sly, Stéphanie d’Oustrac, Paul Appleby, Sophie Karthäuser, Lionel Lhote, Frédéric Caton, Katarina Bradić. Performed in French and subtitled in English, German, French and Korean.

Through the eye of French director Laurent Pelly this expression of Berlioz’s undying admiration for the Bard — his adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opéra comique — becomes "an elegant treatise on love and music designed in shades of grey with 50s-era costumes" (Sunday Express ★★★★).

 

Housed by designer Barbara de Limburg in a series of oversized boxes, it’s "terribly chic, terribly pretty" (The Spectator).

 

Soaring over the warmly graceful playing of the London Philharmonic’, Paul Appleby sings ‘attractively’ as Bénédict and Stéphanie d’Oustrac "makes a marvellously wiry and fiery Béatrice, singing with charm and acting with gusto" (The Telegraph).

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