![]() Rapunzel’s aria, Stuck in this Tower! (Una voce poco fa), pours out longing with delicate grace notes and florid flurries, but now the Witch enlists Figaro to Start a Rumour (La Calunnia) with a contemporary flavour: “First to Facebook, then TikTok” - cue for a song-and-dance duet. Credit: Maksim PavicĪs in Rossini, an aristocratically diffident Prince (Keaton Staz) relies on the worldly Figaro to fix him a bride, but here both must confront the Witch in her tower - Aunty Bertha (Dr Bartolo in the original), played with pantomime panache and presence by Charis Postmus - a scheming foil to Ruth Burke’s Rapunzel, whose pre-Raphaelite charms complement a rich soprano voice.Īmid the Prince’s romantic reverie, Figaro starts his own scheme in the duet It’s a High Tower (All’idea di quel metallo), with a touch of tongue-in-cheek humour: “Come to my salon, we’ll Figaro it out”. Shaw’s talent as raconteur and wit shines through such lines as “(Rapunzel) won’t cut it, she’s a Muppet”, ringing out across the mythical “Operaland” between Tempo Tower and Vibrato Village. ![]() ![]() ![]() This “factotum” carries scissors, a comb, shears, even a sink plunger, as the opening aria chimes in to the dexterous tones of musical director Tommaso Pollio’s piano. ![]()
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