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...Jonathan Gunthorpe and Gweneth Ann Rand created vivid characters out of the physician and manager, not only singing well, but delivering spoken text with uncommon skill....
...Jennifer France is a touch thin of voice as Mary, but there are keen cameos from Gweneth Ann Rand as George’s mother and Ronald Samm as his uncle Billy....
...Gweneth Ann Rand gives her strong support as Mrs Grose, and Francesca Chiejina and Robert Murray are well paired as the ghostly Miss Jessel and Peter Quint....
...Venables’s writing for voices and instruments remains unflinchingly intense, and Gweneth-Ann Rand is deeply disturbing as the central figure....
...which opens next month, promises a first-rate mix of African-American and black British singers, headed by Eric Greene as Porgy and Nicole Cabell as Bess, and including Latonia Moore, Nadine Benjamin, Gweneth-Ann...
...But soprano Gweneth-Ann Rand supplies the production’s most disturbing images. We see her screaming in agony. We see her choking in a panic attack. Finally we see her gazing at a noose....
...Gweneth-Ann Jeffers’s Aida, when she is allowed to put down her cleaning mop and bucket, has worked hard at the role’s technical difficulties....
...Gweneth-Ann Jeffers pumped out impressive, verismo-style singing as the tomboy who longs to be kissed by the tenor, though Wally’s lyrical passages suit her less well....
...Gweneth-Ann Jeffers and Peter Auty throw themselves into the doomed passion of Leonora and Don Alvaro, rising wholeheartedly to the tragic stature of their music – even if neither has the consistency of...
...Two other performances were outstanding – Alan Held as Gunther and Karen Cargill as Waltraute – and Gweneth-Ann Jeffers’ Gutrune and Gordon Hawkins’ Alberich were also appreciable....
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