Garsington Opera

by Gioachino Rossini. With Jack Swanson, Andrea Carroll, Joshua Bloom, Patricia Bardon, Katie Bray, Jaques Imbrailo, Liam Bonthrone, Jonathan de Garis, Eugene Dillon-Hooper, Philippe Durant, Dominick Felix, Milly Forrest, Will Frost, Louise Fuller, Josephine Goddard, Aaron Godfrey-Mayes, Siân Griffiths, Carolyn Holt, Ossian Huskinson, Jerome Knox, Satriya Krisna, Katherine McIndoe, Alexandra Meier, Jade Moffat, Lauren Morris, Natasha Page, Matthew Palmer, Isolde Roxby, Ryan Vaughan Davies, Leila Zanette and Robert Murray (22nd, 25th July).

The Philharmonia conducted by Valentina Peleggi.

PRESS
"McCrystal’s staging turns Rossini’s comedy into a deliriously camp period musical. Garsington Opera’s new laugh-out-loud funny production of Le Comte Ory"
The Guardian ★★★★

"McCrystal ratchets the farcical plot to a pitch of delirious daftness that I’ve not encountered at the opera since, well, since McCrystal directed Iolanthe for ENO…..a comic genius. And McCrystal, like Rossini, is certainly that."
The Spectator ★★★★

"This fun-filled romp, enjoyed enormously by the audience, and perhaps even more so by the cast. What McCrystal has actually done is introduce contemporary comedy into the piece, some of it a bit crude, but why not, which then allows all the things Berlioz raved about to flourish."
Daily Mail ★★★★

"Forewarned is forearmed. The director of this show is Cal McCrystal, who masterminded the pratfalls of One man, Two Guvnors, put the S&M into G&S for English National Opera’s Iolanthe and directed the Las Vegas-bound variety show Atomic saloon Show at the Edinburgh Fringe, which our critic found deliriously filthy minded”. McCrystal has not restrained himself for Garsington. The Principals are up for everything Rossini and McCrystal throw at them."
The Times ★★★★

"Dramatically striking and surprisingly thought-provoking production Rossini"s comedy."
The Stage ★★★★

"Rossini can take the high jinks of Cal McCrystal in a deliciously cast romp….The music is almost lost in gales of laughter"
The Arts Desk

"It would take a stern heart not to be swollen to bursting by Garsington Opera’s Le Comte Ory. Even if we hadn’t all spent the last year at digital arms length, the clasp-you-to-its-ample-bosom and burst-your-social-bubble naughtiness of Cal McCrystal’s new staging would be pretty irresistible."
INews

"Director Cal McCrystal’s approach, in partnership with designer takis, to the opera seems to be very simple: make sure everyone on stage and in the audience has fun. For an evening of slapstick comedy and quality bel canto singing, this production delivers."
bachtrack ★★★★

"Garsington gave us Cal McCrystal’s deliriously camp take on the wonderfully ribald Le Comte Ory." Guardian Best of Opera 2021

VIDEO
Le Comte Ory Walk Down - opening night

YEAR
2021