Opera
The Fairy Queen
Pivoting out from the Fairy Queen’s desire, love and loss, we follow three pairs of lovers into a world of magic and mystery. As the sun sets, drunken poets, Fairy Kings and Queens even Night and Day become entangled by the sweet torment of Love.
Writer: Henry Purcell
Director: Elsie Edgerton-Till
Set and Costume Design: Isabella Andronos
Lighting Design: Karen Norris
Musical Director: Neal Peres Da Costa
Chair of Opera Production: Stephen Mould
Costume Supervisor: Hannah Lobelson
Choreographer: Daniella Lacob
Assistants: Ellen McNeil, Nathan Bryon
Music Workshop, The Sydney Conservatorium of Music
14 - 21 May 2016, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Music Workshop
AWARDS
Nomination: Costume designs exhibited in World Stage Design 2017, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2017.
“The production captures the masque quality of the opera superbly. The choreography moves the fantasy characters around with a ballet-like formality. This is enhanced by beautiful costumes set against a serviceable stage design suitable for the small space. The designer Isabella Andronos is in some ways the star of the show. The women are elegant, the men quite dandified. Only the two humans are in day-to-day dress and move and act in naturalistic manner in contrast to the mostly studied formality of the fantasy characters.”
John O’Brien, ClassikOn, 2016
“These successful costume designs by Isabella Andronos complement her set design which blends the enchanted wood with a salon turned upside down as supernatural beings get close to the mortals. Headpieces, costume fabrics and props successfully magnify the essence of each being onstage, whether they are fairies or gods.”
Paul Nolan, Sydney Arts Guide, 2016
