Name: The Apothecary
Start: 2024-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: The Manor House Garden, Dorchester

Admin

Bampton Classical Opera

Conductor

Mark Austin

Director

Jeremy Gray

Singer

Madeline Robinson

Soloists

Iúnó Connolly

Guy Beynon

Henry Ross

Orchestra

Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera

English

The Apothecary

London

United Kingdom

The Manor House Garden, Dorchester

The Apothecary: Lo speziale Haydn

Public

Larissa Andrea Pereira

Approved

In Lo speziale (The Apothecary), the librettist Goldoni demonstrates his belief that ‘comedy was created to correct vice and ridicule bad behaviour’. Haydn exploits the satire with characteristic wit and colour, and feasts on the comic potential of the four entangled characters. Sempronio, a work-shy apothecary, spends his time with the newspapers, attempting to sift reality from fake news, but is readily distracted by the charms of his pretty ward Grilletta. But her fluttering eyes are cast on his shy assistant, Mengone, a youth with little understanding of chemistry who somehow concocts a powerful laxative, to be praised in one of Haydn’s jauntiest arias. Meanwhile Grilletta is also wooed by the foppish Volpino, whose mastery of disguise leads to a finale of delightful silliness.

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Crew

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