The Financial Times

Orlando

By David Murray

"... Christopher Ainslie strikes a vivid figure, and sings with robust, dark-voiced intelligence.  Nicholas Warden looms up nicely as the bass "magus" Zoroastro...."

"... in the soubrette role of lovelorn Dorinda we have a charming, bubbly performance from Joana Seara."

"... the happiest discovery was the soprano Rebecca Ryan's sparkling Angelica ... Miss Ryan makes a delightful soubrette - and with depths beautifully displayed in the range and variety of her arias here.  Everybody should want her as a Susanna for Figaro, or a Despina for Cosi, or a Zerlina for Don Giovanni:  her interlligence, wit and charm would surely triumph."

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