Organization

Conductor

John Hancorn

Singer

Spoken

Tim Locke

King Arthur

Bass

1. Priest

Farmer

Soprano

Georgina Thorburn

Philidels Geist

Soprano I

Tenor

Shepherd

Hiroshi Kanazawa

Second Saxon Priest

British Warrior

Lover

Richard Fisher

Oswald

Spirit

Jennifer Clark

Cupid

Venus

Catrin Woodruff

Honour

Janet Forbes

Soprano II

First Nymph

Eva Rustige

Second Nymph

Saxon Priestess

David Foster

Osmond

Shairon Lloyd

Mother 1

New Sussex Opera

Others

NSO Chorus

NSO company | NSO Players

Hurstpierpoint

United Kingdom

King Arthur Purcell

Public

Approved

Director Boo Wild injected some wonderfully zany, Pythonesque humour into Purcell’s opera. Following the solemn opening scene sacrificing white horses to the gods, we had Arthur’s army steering their way through Kentish mists, past a series of traffic cones and a Diversion road sign to a sheer cliff fall. The famous  passacaglia featured a gigantic heart of paper rose petals laid out by the chorus on the floor.

The ‘frozen chorus’ saw Grimbald emerge from a huge fridge in a rubbish dump strewn with a mattress and other junk. Cupid stripped off her boiler suit to reveal a bikini beneath and wrought her enchanting powers of love, while Honour appeared in a Union Jack costume in the final pageant where the two battling kings resolved  their differences and all ended happily.

English

King Arthur by Purcell, From (2016/2016), Conductor John Hancorn

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