Robert Forrest, Marlena Devoe, Verity Wingate, Hollie-Anne Bangham |
All four singers were part of Garsington Opera's 2018 Alvarez Young Artists’ Programme, which provides training and performance opportunities with the company, and this year, with singers on the programme taking on small roles and understudying major roles. This year a full performance of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte was sung by the understudies for a schools' audience. Marlena Devoe understudied and sang the role of Alice Ford Falstaff in two performances as well as being in the chorus, Verity Wingate understudied and sang the role of Pamina in Die Zauberflóte in the school’s performance and sang in the chorus, Hollie-Anne Bangham understudied the role of Pilar in The Skating Rink and sang in the chorus, Robert Forrest understudied the role of Flamand and sang 1st Servant in Capriccio as well as singing in the chorus.
Read my reviews of Richard Strauss' Capriccio and David Sawyer's The Skating Rink from this year's festival. The 2019 season runs from 29 May to 21 July and includes Mozart’s Don Giovanni, Smetana’s The Bartered Bride, Britten’s The Turn of the Screw, and the UK stage premiere of Offenbach’s Fantasio.
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