La Finta Giardiniera
La Finta Giardiniera
Royal College of Music, London
Royal College of Music, London
As the mayor prepares his garden for his niece's wedding to Count Belfiore, not everything — and everyone — is as it seems.
Written by Mozart at eighteen, La Finta Giardiniera is a deceptively dark comedy of disguises.
This new production imagined the garden as a space where the normal rules of time didn't apply: all four seasons pass in a day and each character was from a different time period.
Don Anchise
Edvard Adde, Tom Law
Violante/Sandrina
Charlotte Jane Kennedy, Maryam Wocial
Contino Belfiore
Francis Melville, Hugo Brady
Arminda
Eve Pearson Maxwell, Carys Davies
Ramiro
Cecilia Yufan Zhang, Angelina Dorlin-Barlow
Serpetta
Eden Shifroni, Bella Marsden
Nardo/Roberto
Zhen Liu, Alex Semple
Cover Don Anchise
Tim Burton
Cover Violante/Sandrina
Ariana Ricci
Cover Contino Belfiore
Taining Zhao
Cover Ramiro
Eve Yein Kim
Cover Serpetta
Olivia Forbes
Composer
W. A. Mozart
Conductor
Michael Rosewell
Director
Stephen Barlow
Set & Costume Designer
Yannis Thavoris
Lighting Designer
Tim Mitchell
Video Designer
PJ McEvoy
Assistant Conductor
Jo Ramadan
Assistant Director
Gus Hodgson
Répétiteurs
Alice Turner, Jo Ramadan, Paul McKenzie
Production Manager
Paul Tucker
Stage Manager
Emma Ryan
Deputy Stage Manager
Zoë Rogers-Holman
Assistant Stage Manager
Helen Woods
Technical Stage Manager
Katherine Verberne
Head of Lighting
Colin Eversdijk
Lighting Programmer
Dan Foggo
Board Operator
Addie Gardner-Williams
Head of Costume
Zoe Hammond Joyce
Costume Assistant
Izzy Darby
Wigs, Hair and Makeup Supervisor
Sophia Knight