The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37

Composer: Britten, Benjamin

Librettist/Text Author: Duncan, Ronald

Conductor: Hussain, Leo

Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bianca: Wyn-Rogers, Catherine

Collatinus: Rose, Matthew

Female Chorus: Royal, Kate

Junius: Sumuel, Michael

Lucia: Alder, Louise

Lucretia: Rice, Christine

Male Chorus: Clayton, Allan

Tarquinius: Rock, Duncan

Set Designer: Levine, Michael

Costume Designer: Gillibrand, Nicky

Lighting Designer: Anderson, Paul

Stage Director: Shaw, Fiona

Television Producer: Bruell, George

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 10-2015

Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House

Playing Time: 01:54:06

Catalogue Number: OA1219D

UPC: 809478012191

Synopsis

The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37

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Seventy years after its Glyndebourne world premier, Benjamin Britten's first chamber opera is welcomed home with a 'performance of enthralling emotional power and physical beauty' gifted with 'piercingly intelligent, immaculately realised staging and superb singing, acting and playing' led by 'Fiona Shaw's supremely nuanced direction' and underpinned by 'febrile playing' from members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (The Telegraph). The production eloquently and tastefully tackles the difficult subject, which is lent emotional weight by 'Christine Rice's grandly sung Lucretia, noble in tone yet tragically vulnerable', along with baritone Duncan Rock's 'forthright' Tarquinius and the 'smooth bass' of Matthew Rose as the caring Collatinus (The Guardian).