Organization

Singer

Soprano

Clare Presland

Countess Susanna

Baritone

Richard Burkhard

Count Gil

Silent

John Savournin

Servant

Conductor

John K. Andrews

Stage director

John Wilkie

Set designer

takis

Lighting designer

Mark Jonathan

Opera Holland Park

Sian Edwards

Olivia Fuchs

Costume designer

Natalya Romaniw

Iolanta

Tenor

David Butt Philip

Count Vaudemont

Charne Rochford

Almeric

Bass

Mikhail Svetlov

Rene

Grant Doyle

Robert

Ashley Riches

Ibn-Hakia

Barnaby Rea

Bertrand

Contralto

Laura Woods

Marta

Julia Hamon

Brigitta

Mezzo-soprano

Helen Brackenbury

Laura

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City of London Sinfonia

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Il segreto di Susanna / Iolanta

London

United Kingdom

Holland Park Theatre

Il segreto di Susanna / Iolanta: Il segreto di Susanna Wolf-Ferrari (+1 More)

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Susanna's Secret

English

Approved

Double Bill Teaser Trailer - The Secret of Susanna and Iolanta

Double Bill Teaser Trailer – Il segreto di Susanna and Iolanta

Clare Presland sings 'O Joy the Light Cloud' from Susanna's Secret

Clare Presland sings 'O gioia la nube leggera' from Il segreto di Susanna

How well do you know your husband? How well do you know your wife? Newly-weds Gil and Susanna learn a little more about each other in Wolf-Ferrari’s delicious 1909 farce of marital mistrust and modern manners.

Mozartian orchestral writing, a Chopinesque piano solo and an aria perfumed with the exotic fragrance of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune contrast with the turbulent Romanticism of Iolanta, Tchaikovsky’s final opera. A dark and beautiful fairy tale of isolation and enchantment, its blind heroine is redeemed through the love of the only man to tell her the truth. A romance as profound as Wolf-Ferrari’s comedy is light, Iolanta forms the second half of a double bill on the theme of secrets and lies.

Listen to Iolanta

Listen to Il segreto di Susanna

Il segreto di Susanna / Iolanta by Wolf-Ferrari, Tchaikovsky, P. I., From (2019/2019), Directed by John Wilkie, Olivia Fuchs,, Conductor John K. Andrews, Sian Edwards, Holland Park Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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