Mozart
La Finta Giardiniera
Mozart • La Finta Giardiniera • Buxton Festival Opera 2013
The slightly more sensible characters (it’s all relative) – Christopher Lemmings’ Don Anchise, Catherine Carby’s Ramiro, Andrew Kennedy’s Belfiore and Ellie Laughame’s Violante/Sandrina provided excellent counterbalance to all this frivolity with great singing, but were also allowed to let themselves go as the occasion demanded.
Opera Journal
Top-quality standards, too, are to be found among the seven principals… Christopher Lemmings, the permanently outmanoeuvred Mayor.