If you would like to relive the music or hear it for the first time, turn into Griselda on ABC Classic FM - including interviews from behind the scenes HERE.
Some of many reviews:-
The Australian Review: Pinchgut's queen triumphs over trials: “Griselda is PinchgutOpera's finest production yet.” Read more HERE.
Sydney Morning Herald review: “Caitlin Hulcup as Griselda has an expressively versatile, true voice, spanning a range from storm arias... to the quiet moments before sleep, and supported all this with convincing stage stature.“ Read more HERE.
TimeOut's 5 star review:- "The performances of the soloists and orchestra are truly world class. Cancel those flights to Berlin, see this instead." Read more HERE.
Australian Stage review: "Caitlin Hulcup's performance of the title role was a complete triumph". Read moreHERE.
And an audience response:- “It was one of the most wonderful nights of my life. I’ll never forget it. Everyone I was with loved it” Hillary Vance.
Written five years before his death this work represents perhaps the culmination of his opera writing career, and the crowning glory of his relationship with his most famous pupil Anna Girò (for whom the part of Griselda was written). Vivaldi wrote this amazing opera carefully balancing vocal pyrotechnics, expansive orchestral writing and the poignancy of the characters and story. In both style and form is vastly different from his Juditha Triumphans (which we performed in 2007). Juditha was an oratorio, and this work for us is the first opera in the gallant style since our inaugural production of Handel’s Semele in 2001. It requires a superb cast with great vocal and dramatic skills! We presented 4 performances of Vivaldi’s Griselda on 30 November, 3, 4 & 5 December at the City Recital Hall Angel Place, Sydney. It was the first Australian production of this work
Principals included:
Griselda: Caitlin Hulcup Gualtiero: Christopher Saunders
Ottone: David Hansen
Costanza: Miriam Allan
Roberto: Tobias Cole Corrado: Russell Harcourt
Conductor: Erin Helyard
Director: Mark Gaal
Designer: David Fleischer Lighting Designer: Luiz Pampolha
Orchestra of the Antipodes on period instruments
Sung in Italian with English surtitles (libretto by Apostolo Zeno, revised by Carlo Goldoni)
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