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British singer-actor
- baritone
- United Kingdom
- opera singer, musician
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2022-03-31 18:07:17
You could not help but be won over: Scottish Opera's new Gilbert and Sullivan production parks its gondola at the Hackney Empire
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers - Dan Shelvey, Catriona Hewitson, Yvonne Howard and Richard Suart - Scottish Opera (Photo James Glossop. Gilbert & Sullivan The Gondoliers; Richard Suart, Yvonne Howard, Ben McAteer, William Morgan, Mark Nathan, Charlie Drummond, Sioned Gwen Davies, Catriona Hewitson, Dan Shelvey, dir: Stuart Maunder, cond: Derek Clark; Scottish Opera at the Hackney Empire Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 30 March 2022 Star rating: 4.0 (★★★★) Charm & delight to the fore with a largely youthful cast for Scottish Opera's visit to LondonScottish Opera is currently making a welcome visit to London, performing two operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan (one popular, the other rare). We caught Scottish Opera in Stuart Maunder's production Gilbert and Sullivan's The Gondoliers at the Hackney Empire on 30 March 2022. Derek Clark conducted with Richard Suart and Yvonne Howard as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza Toro, Ben McAteer as […]
2021-07-19 08:08:51
Real intimacy: Lerner & Loewe's My Fair Lady in a concert staging at The Grange Festival
[…] Fair Lady in a concert staging directed by Guy Unsworth with Alfonso Casado Trigo conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra gloriously live on stage and playing the orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J Lang (if any musical needs to have a full orchestra it is surely this one). Ellie Laugharne played Eliza with Steven Pacey as Henry Higgins, Peter Polycarpou as Doolittle, Susie Blake as Mrs Higgins / Mrs Pearce / Cockney Woman, Richard Suart as Colonel Pickering and Nadim Naaman as Freddy Eynsford-Hill. The orchestra spread out at the rear of the stage, with cast and chorus sitting in front. Cast members were in concert dress but were off the book, and there was an acting area at the front over the pit. The book was slightly edited (no ball scene, some characters missing) but we got a very full version musically. The cast was […]
2020-06-07 10:05:56
A Life On-Line: Damnation in London, Midsummer Nights at the Guildhall School, Masked Balls in Holland Park, Candide in Hampshire
[…] the week at another favourite festival, The Grange in Hampshire, where we caught up with their 2018 concert staging of Bernstein's Candide (which we missed first time round). Rob Houchen and Katie Hall were Candide and Cunegonde, both come from a musical theatre background which works best in this work I feel, providing you can find good singing actors like these two. Houchen and Hall's appealingly naive yet musical performances were finely supported by Richard Suart as Voltaire/Pangloss, Rosemary Ashe as the Old Lady, Charles Rice as Maximilian, Kitty Whately as Paquette and Robert Murray demonstrating his versatility by singing everyone else! Alfonso Casado Trigo conducted the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Grange Festival Chorus, and the staging was directed by Christopher Luscombe. The video is available via the Grange Festival website. Elsewhere on the web, counter-tenor Clint Van Der Linde [whom we saw recently in the title role […]
2019-11-04 21:46:09
[…] accompany the line. Similarly, here the character plans his suicide with pills rather than a rope, which makes a mockery of the moment when he says he can ‘draw the line’. ENO The Mikado 2019, Yvonne Howard, Soraya Mafi, © Genevieve GirlingENO The Mikado 2019, Cast, Sioned Gwen Davies, Elgan Llŷr Thomas, John Tomlinson, Soraya Mafi, Kitty Whately, Jonathan McGovern, © Genevieve Girling This presentation does, however, boast an excellent cast. Richard Suart has played Ko-Ko, the cheap tailor promoted to the rank of Lord High Executioner, in every revival since 1988, and is in his element, whether he is acting the tennis playing twit, billiard shark buffoon or wretched white suited suitor. With so much in the news, his hilarious ‘list song’, which it is a tradition always to update with contemporary targets, probably faced the challenge of knowing what to leave out. In the event, […]
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