Iphigenia in Tauris
★ ★ ★ ★
“Laura Attridge’s inclusive production is a showcase for Gluck’s greatness”
- The Stage
Iphigenia in Tauris
Blackheath Halls Opera 2025
Presented in a new English translation by Martin Pickard
Director: Laura Attridge
Musical Director: Chris Stark
Designer: Peiyao Wang
Lighting Designer: Charly Dunford
Movement Director: Corina Würsch
Fight Director: Mark Ruddick
Iphigenia: Francesca Chiejina
Orestes: Danny Shelvey
Pylades: Michael Lafferty
Thoas: Dan D’Souza
First Priestess: Emily Williams
Second Priestess: Ava Reineke
Third Priestess: Eva Hutchins
First Scythian: Byron Davis-Hughes
Second Scythian: Zac Conibear
With...
Blackheath Halls Opera Adult Chorus
Blackheath Halls Opera Youth Company
Greenvale and Charlton Schools
Blackheath Halls Community Orchestra
BSL interpretation by Wendy Ebsworth
Photos: Julian Guidera
”Attridge's staging…was notable for its contemporary interpretation of the artistic motto the composer applied to his Italian ‘Reform’ operas of the 1760s - bella semplicità”
- Operalogue
“Attridge’s production stood at the heart of this, neither imposing something extraneous on the work nor shying away from interpretation, rooted in the work but not confined by it: a metaphor and, I suspect, a foundation for the enterprise as a whole.”
- Seen and Heard International
“A sense of classicism and community combined with compelling individual performances to make this account of Gluck's great, but neglected opera into an engaging and moving evening in the theatre."
- Robert Hugill
”The realisation of the interlocked relationships of the three central characters comes close to perfection.”
- The Stage