The Audience reacts to L'Olimpiade
Thursday, 25 April, 2024
Critic and audience reactions to Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade.
L'Olimpiade is touring Ireland, London and Switzerland from 20 April - 1 June 2024.
“though you’re keen to see how everything ends, you never want the music, or singing, to stop” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“L’Olimpade’s superlative ensemble infusing warmth, pain and playfulness into each note” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“endless comic and romantic interplay” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“Vivaldi’s galloping and emotional score given vivid life by the award winning, Irish Baroque Orchestra under Peter Whelan” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“gorgeously illuminated by Jake Wilshire” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
“Irish Baroque Orchestra producing some of their finest playing, capturing the velocity, vivacity and tenderness of Vivaldi's music” - The Arts Review - Chris O'Rourke ★★★★
Read the full review from The Arts Review here.
“vivacious singing and playing” - The Arts Desk - David Nice ★★★★★
“wonder if all Dubliners realized how lucky they were to be on such intimate terms with a world-class team in Dun Laoghaire” - The Arts Desk - David Nice ★★★★★
“Molly O’Cathain’s designs, Jake Wiltshire’s lighting and Matthew Forbes’s movement are in perfect harmony with the concept of director Daisy Evans” - The Arts Desk - David Nice ★★★★★
Read the full review from The Arts Desk here.
“Director Daisy Evans and her team seem wholly in sync creating staging that mirrors or uncovers emotion and delicately identifies shifts in relationships” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“for easeful sheer beauty and expressive instinct, the soprano Rachel Redmond is in a class of her own” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“Meili Li stands out, conjuring lyricism from his great resources of agility, dynamic control and freshness of tone” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain rises to the special challenge of playing Megacle” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“Alexandra Urquiola (Aristea) and Sarah Richmond (Argene) bring potent, understated emotional presence as the young women betrayed in love” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“The dynamism in staging is seamlessly matched by the expressive shifts of colour, focus and intensity in Jake Wiltshire’s lighting” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
“Movement, directed by Matthew Forbes, is suffused with grace and poetry” - The Irish Times - Michael Dungan ★★★★
Read the full review from The Irish Times here.
“clever and effective Vivaldi staging with music of heartstopping beauty” - The Guardian - Joe Henley ★★★★
“Evans’s production is clever and strikingly effective”
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