Gaetano Donizzetti
MARIA DE RUDENZ
Director: Fabio Ceresa
Choreographer: Riccardo Olivier
Set designer: Gary McCann
Costume designer: Giuseppe Palella
Light designer: Christopher Akerlind
Wexford Festival Opera
Production 2016
photo by Clive Barda
photo by Clive Barda
photo by Clive Barda
photo by Clive Barda
photo by Clive Barda
photo by Clive Barda
"Director Fabio Ceresa’s ironic approach to the opera’s ridiculous plot was terrifically effective; Ceresa brought a novel, comedic element to this opera. He also did a magnificent job of minimising the potential for gore by narrating the majority of the deaths through puppets often to wickedly humorous effect."
Bachtrack.com
***
"The Wexford Festival’s intricate, handsome-looking production, directed by Fabio Ceresa, presents the action in a giant doll’s house. t’s a production which is at all times visually absorbing, and the convolutions of the plot are conveyed with commendable lucidity.
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Irishtimes.com
***
"Thanks to a fascinating concept and fine elaborated realisation by director Fabio Ceresa the clumsy composition is fresh up, faces a logical order and is not short of cynical and some comic injections."
Opera-online.com