5 star reviews at Opera Holland Park for Conductor John Andrews

5 star reviews at Opera Holland Park for Conductor John Andrews

Wolf-Ferrari’s Il segreto di Susanna conducted by John Andrews opened at Opera Holland Park on Monday 22nd July as part of a double bill with Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. This new production directed by John Wilkie stars Claire Presland, Richard Burkhard and John Savournin

Rupert Christiansen in The Telegraph writes “with delicate orchestral colours that evoke Ravel, and something of the conversational sparkle of Verdi’s Falstaff… John Andrews conducts with grace and affection” ( ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

On Planet Hugill, Robert Hugill says “The sparkling Overture to the opera is moderately well known, but John Andrews and the City of London Sinfonia showed us that the rest of Wolf-Ferrari’s score is equally delightful” ( ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2)

“John Andrews and the City of London Sinfonia faithfully get the measure of the German-Italian’s score, froth with teeth poised between verismo and the sauciest operetta (Classical Source ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

“This is Holland Park at its best – an evening that reaches a standard in these pieces that our national companies might struggle to match… John Andrews’ conducting is spick and span; the score is a gem” (The Stage ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

“John Andrews conducts… and Wolf-Ferrari’s score wittily imitates that tropes of grand opera, with heroic statements, powerful love duets and anguished arias” (Culture Whisper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️)

Congratulations to John Andrews and all the team for this “operatic puff of air.” as Alexandra Coghlan describes this witty farce in The Arts Desk