Garsington Opera - The Bartered Bride Reviews
25 April 2024
Brenden Gunnell (Jeník), Chorus
Peter Savidge (Krušina), Heather Shipp (Ludmilla)
Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts (Circus Master), Ensemble
Ensemble
Natalya Romaniw (Mařenka), Brenden Gunnell (Jeník)

Performance reviews

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The Bartered Bride

Garsington Opera


No. of reviews: 12

Natalya Romaniw campe une extraordinaire Mařenka
21 Jul 19 / Anaclase
Garsington Opera’s The Bartered Bride is a winning summer’s evening
12 Jun 19 / Seen and Heard
Charm and wit in assured English village staging
4 Jun 19 / The Guardian
Paul Curran’s direction is sensitively handled
4 Jun 19 / Classical Source
A brilliant The Bartered Bride to open Garsington's 2019 30th anniversary season
3 Jun 19 / Opera Today
The opera festival at the top of its game
2 Jun 19 / The Stage
An exuberantly performed, perfectly pitched first show of the season
2 Jun 19 / Broadway World
Ambridge meets Ealing in this jolly update
2 Jun 19 / Telegraph
The most brilliantly choreographed display of acrobatics imaginable
1 Jun 19 / Independent
Anyone expecting a folksy Moravian setting might be briefly disappointed
1 Jun 19 / Music OMH
Czech tale turns into a very English caper
31 May 19 / Evening Standard
Czech mate: a hilarious and immaculately executed Bartered Bride at Garsington
31 May 19 / Bachtrack
Production details
Cast
Savidge, Shipp, Romaniw, Whelan, Owens, Jackson, Gunnell, Bloom, Lloyd-Roberts, Müller
(c) van Steen (d) Curran
Performance dates
29, 31 May, 6, 8, 11, 15, 20, 23, 30 June 2019
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