Le Nozze di Figaro // Nevill Holt Opera 2018
by Mozart
conductor: Nicholas Chalmers
director: Joe Austin
costume designer: Ilona Karas
lighting designer: Matt Haskins
choreographer: Lorena Randi
photographer: Robert Workman
★★★★ "Cleverly designed, this is a good-looking Marriage of Figaro, with a handsome white set by Simon Kenny, suggesting a touch of Moorish influence in its Spanish architectural flavour" The Stage
★★★★ ”The eighteenth-century Spanish setting, attractively designed by Simon Kenny” The Telegraph
★★★★ "A ravishing new production...a simple white set, with graceful scalloped arches, put the opera firmly in its Spanish setting, with the actors contrasting sharply against the cool background in dazzling coloured costumes" Bachtrack
★★★★ The Observer
"Simon Kenny's elegant all-white set dominated by doors, expanded atmospherically in the later acts to include galleries and arcades of Moorish arches" Opera Magazine
"This period production, with it's sumptuous, brightly coloured costumes and crisp Andalusian trelliswork set looked pretty and was intelligently staged" Sunday Times
"Simon Kenny's whipped-cream designs" What’s On Stage
"An elegant production" The Times