L’Olimpiade
“The notorious structural and dramatic straitjacket of Metastasian opera seria… proves no obstacle to Laura Attridge’s sensitive and alert direction”
- Opera Today
L’Olimpiade
Vache Baroque Festival, 2024
Director and Scriptwriter: Laura Attridge
Musical Director: Jonathan Darbourne
Designer: Caitlin Abbott
Lighting Designer: Josie Ireland
Movement Director: Ami Nagano
Licida: Aoife Miskelly
Aristea: Nazan Fikret
Megacle: Natasha Page
Argene: Shafali Jalota
Clistene: Bechara Moufarrej
Alcandro: Frances Gregory
Aminta: Robert Forrest
Photos: Michael Wheatley
“an engaging case for Pergolesi's penultimate opera”
- Planet Hugill
“much sophistication”
- Opera Scene
“Attridge took a more interventionist approach with the recitative, transforming it into a lucid English dialogue and striking a well-judged pitch between the elevated and the everyday.”
- Opera Magazine
“[an] intelligent and stylish production”
- Opera Today