Donizetti
conductor Ricardo Frizza
director Stephen Langridge
set and costume Katie Davenport
lighting Peter Mumford
puppetry director Poppy Franziska
puppet design Katie Davenport
puppet maker Mikayla R. Teodoro
puppeteers Noemi Giannico, Matteo Moglianesi
cast Jessica Pratt, John Osborn, Raffaella Lupinacci, Simone Piazzola, David Astorga
photography by Peter Mumford & Gianfranco Rota
★★★★“Wearing that same gown is the figure of death- a skeleton, operated by two puppeteers- who haunts and taunts Elizabetta, dancing with a younger double of Roberto, even riding him on a giant red bed as the death warrant is signed. Has Tudor history ever been so gloriously gothic” - Mark Pullinger, BACHTRACK
“Death reigned there, and so it arrived in the production in the shape of a skeleton copy of the Queen, masterly operated by two puppeteers. She dances, she mours, she even rides the young Roberto. And we are all enchanted by her, unable to stop watching.” - Polina Lyapustina, OPERAWIRE