Beatrice et Benedict

Composer: Berlioz, Hector

Librettist/Text Author: Berlioz, Hector

Conductor: Manacorda, Antonello

Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus: Glyndebourne Chorus

Chorus Master: Bines, Jeremy

Beatrice: d'Oustrac, Stephanie

Benedict: Appleby, Paul

Claudio: Sly, Philippe

Don Pedro: Caton, Frederic

Hero: Karthauser, Sophie

Somarone: Lhote, Lionel

Ursule: Bradic, Katarina

Set Designer: Limburg, Barbara de

Costume Designer: Pelly, Laurent

Lighting Designer: Schuler, Duane

Stage Director: Pelly, Laurent

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 2016

Venue: Glyndebourne Opera House

Playing Time: 01:57:47

Catalogue Number: OA1239D

UPC: 809478012399

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Through the eye of French director Laurent Pelly this expression of Berlioz's undying admiration for the Bard - his adaptation of Much Ado about Nothing as an opera comique - becomes 'an elegant treatise on love and music designated in shades of grey with 50s-era costumes' (Sunday Express). Housed by designer Barbara de Limburg in a series of oversized boxes, it's 'terribly chic, terribly pretty' (The Spectacular). Soaring over the 'warmly graceful playing of the London Philharmonic', Paul Appleby sings 'attractively' as Benedict and Stephanie d'Oustrac 'makes a marvellously wiry and fiery Beatrice, singing with charm and actin with gusto' (The Telegraph).