Organization

Lighting designer

Tim Mitchell

Choreographer

Lynne Hockney

Singer

Baritone

Bryn Terfel

Aleko

Soprano

Ailish Tynan

Zemfira

Tenor

Luis Gomes

The young gypsy

Bass

Robert Winslade Anderson

The old gypsy

Contralto

Sara Fulgoni

The old gypsy woman

Gianni Schicchi

Pasquale Orchard

Lauretta

Rinuccio

Zita

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

Gherardo

Nella

Matthew Brook

Simone

Michel de Souza

Marco

Mezzo-soprano

Olivia Ray

La Ciesca

Conductor

Gianluca Marcianò

Stage director

Stephen Medcalf

Set designer

Jamie Vartan

Grange Park Opera

Betto di Signa

Jacob Bettinelli

Pinellino

Christian Andreas

Guccio

Henry Grant Kerswell

Maestro Spinelloccio

Movement director

Tim Bagley

Buoso Donati

Edward Molony

Gherardino

Thomas Price-Harries

Italian

Russian

Double Bryn Terfel

Surrey

United Kingdom

Grange Park Opera, Surrey

Bryn Double: blood & bounty: Aleko Rachmaninoff (+1 More)

Private

Public

Staged

Opera

English

Approved

Aleko is Rachmaninoff at his most effusive, in an exquisite score brimming with his trademark soaring melodies.

Sir Bryn Terfel is Pushkin’s Romantic hero, a tormented victim of passion with a knife at the ready for any wrong-doing.

He has turned his back on the ordinary world to be with Zemfira who breaks him. The blood-drenched show-down presents a side of Bryn that is rarely – if ever – seen.

Bizet’s Carmen, written two decades before, was drawn from this same Pushkin verse story.

In marked contrast, Bryn is Puccini’s comic trickster Gianni Schicchi
(pronounced Junny Skikki), called in by the wealthy Donatis to solve a family problem.

He refuses – until his daughter sings Puccini’s most famous aria O mio babbino caro.

This comic masterpiece (Puccini’s only comedy and written towards the end of his life) is built on every family’s nightmare: the reading of a will that goes disastrously wrong.

If you’ve never laughed out loud at an opera, try this!

Did you know the word “zany” comes from Gianni (the diminutive of Giovanni)?

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Co-Producer