{"id":3557,"date":"2017-05-08T17:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larkreviews.co.uk\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2017-05-08T17:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:22:47","slug":"garsington-opera-announces-2018-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3557","title":{"rendered":"GARSINGTON OPERA ANNOUNCES 2018 SEASON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 Garsington Opera will present the world premiere of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The Skating Rink<\/em><\/span><\/strong> by leading British composer <strong>David Sawer<\/strong> with a libretto by award-winning playwright <strong>Rory Mullarkey<\/strong>.\u00a0 This new commission is based on the short novel by Chilean author Roberto Bola\u00f1o; <strong>Stewart Laing<\/strong> will direct and <strong>Garry Walker<\/strong> (<em>The Cunning Little Vixen<\/em>, 2014) conducts.<\/p>\n<p>The Philharmonia Orchestra joins for Verdi\u2019s <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Falstaff <\/em><\/span><\/strong>with <strong>Henry Waddington<\/strong> making his debut in the title role.\u00a0 <strong>Richard Farnes<\/strong> will conduct and <strong>Bruno Ravella<\/strong> (<em>Intermezzo<\/em>, 2015) directs.<\/p>\n<p>Garsington Opera\u2019s first collaboration with Santa Fe Opera features Strauss\u2019s <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Capriccio <\/em><\/span><\/strong>with <strong>Miah Persson<\/strong> as the Countess.\u00a0 <strong>Tim Albery<\/strong> (<em>Idomeneo<\/em>, 2016) directs with <strong>Douglas Boyd<\/strong>, Artistic Director of Garsington Opera, conducting.<\/p>\n<p>A new production of <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>The Magic Flute<\/em><\/span><\/strong> opens the seven week season on 31 May with <strong>Christian Curnyn<\/strong> conducting and <strong>Netia Jones<\/strong> directing, both making their Garsington Opera debuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 Garsington Opera will present the world premiere of The Skating Rink by leading British composer David Sawer with a libretto by award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey.\u00a0 This new commission is based on the short novel by Chilean author Roberto &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/?p=3557\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3558,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions\/3558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larkreviews.wickedlemon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}