OPERA
Guildhall Opera Double Bill | 2022
Miss Fortune
Judith Weir
Commissioned by Bregenz Festival and the Royal Opera House and premiered in 2011, Miss Fortune is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Judith Weir’s opera is a story about Tina and how her life dramatically changes course overnight; it is a story about fate and fortune.
Written specifically for performance on American television in 1947, Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera The Telephone is a romantic comedy in one act, written for just two singers and a hand-picked chamber ensemble of instrumentalists.
Cast - The Telephone
Lucy England Segomotso Shupinyaneng
Ben Upthegrove Jonathan Eyers
Lucy England Ellie Neate
Ben Upthegrove Jack Holton
The Telephone
Gian Carlo Menotti
Conductor Dominic Wheeler
Director Martin Lloyd-Evans
Designer Anna Reid
Lighting Anthony Doran
Movement Director Rachel Wise
Assistant Conductor Joseph Beesley
Assistant Director Rachel Wise
Stage Manager Emma Peace
DSM Andrea Støier Andersen
Production Manager Hayden Gurney
Cast - Miss Fortune
Lord Fortune Jacob Harrison
Lady Fortune Amy Holyland
Lady Fortune Laura Fleur
Tina Erin Gwyn Rossington
Tina Cleo Lee McGowan
Fate Kieron-Connor Valentine
Hassan Florian Panzieri
Hassan Innocent Masuku
Donna Laura Fleur
Donna Amy Holyland
Simon Jack Holton
Simon Jonathan Eyers
Chorus of sweatshop workers and party guests:
Josephine Lockwood; Manon Ogwen Parry; Stamatia Tsaroucha; Miku Yasukawa; Lydia Haynes; Aina Miyagi Magnell;
Julia Sanchez Merino; Shana Moron-Caravel; Archie Buchanan; Steven van der Linden; Joshua Saunders; Tobias Campos Santinaque; Charlie Broad; Alaric Green; André Soares; Leif Tse