Hints and tips:
...Marcelino Sambé made a promising debut as Lescaut and Bennet Gartside was a novel in miniature as the lascivious Louisiana gaoler....
...This year’s iteration, filmed for live cinema relay at the Royal Opera House, boasts a spiffy cast: Elizabeth McGorian the ideal Frau Stahlbaum, reigning with gentlest charm over the party; Bennet Gartside...
...The production was strongly cast: I greatly admire Alexander Campbell’s alert and subtly detailed Mercutio, Tristan Dyer’s clear-cut Benvolio, Gary Avis’s arrogant, dark-hued Tybalt, as I do Bennet Gartside...
...Hristov a vivid Paris, and not the usual sofa pushed about by the drama; Elizabeth McGorian the ideal Lady Capulet; Gary Avis a dominating, angry, fine Tybalt....
...She was admirably matched by Bennet Gartside’s Tsarevich. Gartside enhances every role he plays, deploying an emotional subtlety that can entirely renew a character....
..., sailing through terrible difficulties with sublime insouciance, for Bennet Gartside’s superlative gaoler (the best ever?)...
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