COSÌ FAN TUTTE - NEW ZEALAND OPERA 2023
KIRI TE KANAWA THEATRE AUCKLAND, ST JAMES THEATRE WELLINGTON, ISAAC THEATRE ROYAL CHRISTCHURCH
New Zealand Opera 2023 Photo Junki Cambronero
Opera Australia 2024 Photo Wallis Media
New Zealand Opera 2023 Photo Junki Cambronero
New Zealand Opera 2023 Photo Junki Cambronero
New Zealand Opera 2023 Photo Junki Cambronero
Opera Australia 2024 Photo Wallis Media
New Zealand Opera 2023 Photo Junki Cambronero
CONDUCTOR
DIRECTOR
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
Tracy Grant Lord
LIGHTING DESIGN
Matthew Marshall
Matthew Kereama
CAST
Fiordiligi - Emma Pearson
Dorabella - Hanna Hipp
Guglielmo - Julien Van Mellaerts
Ferrando - Jonathan Abernethy
Despina - Georgia Jamieson Emms
Don Alfonso - Andrew Foster-Williams
“Matt Marshall’s lighting is digitally precise and well-conceived.”
Michael Hooper, theatreview.org.nz
"The plot, worthy of a Netflix romcom, unfolds through flimsy deceptions and disguises, emotional farewells and passionate wooing, all facilitated before us by a cleverly revolving set and imaginative fast-changing lighting design."
“Significantly, three women lead NZ Opera’s creative team, although Matthew Marshall’s lighting is also a major asset, from flickering cocktail bar silhouettes to his gleaming illumination of the second act’s frolics and follies.”
“In this marvellously directed NZ Opera production Lindy Hume has opted for a sourly uneasy ending but without reducing the wit and high spirits along the way. Tracy Grant Lord’s brilliantly devised set and costumes, beautifully lit by Matthew Marshall, of a play within a play emphasises the artificiality of this world while the virtuoso use of a revolve, allowing for rapid changes between classy restaurant, the sisters’ house and elsewhere, makes for plenty of fun.”
“Set and costume designer Tracy Grant Lord used a fluidly-employed revolving stage brilliantly mirroring the uncongealed nature of the work’s constantly-evolving interactions with the inestimable help of Matthew Marshall’s lighting designs.”