Hints and tips:
...The temperature is lower here in Michael Grandage’s production from 2012, the one with the handsome Moorish designs warmed by a glowing Spanish sun....
...Her voice contrasts nicely with the bright soprano of Lydia Teuscher’s Susanna and Isabel Leonard sings well as a not very boyish Cherubino....
...Cherubino sings of lust with his hand down his trousers. Figaro mocks his master with vigorous pelvic thrusts....
...And Lydia Teuscher’s Cherubino is pure joy....
...The stand-out performance is Kathryn Rudge’s deeply felt, endearingly jittery Cherubino....
...The director is Michael Grandage, who made his operatic debut here two summers ago with an anodyne Billy Budd....
...Larry Cherubino, Cherubino: virtuoso producing especially fine Shiraz from Frankland and Riesling from Porongurup and Mount Barker....
...In this production the Count, perceptively played by Michael Volle, is an out-and-out bully, and it is no surprise that the Countess looks ready to throw in the towel....
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