DIE FLEDERMAUS
Assistant Director
Guildhall School of Music and Drama - November 2024
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Conductor: Dominic Wheeler
Director: Ashley Dean
Designer: Adam Wiltshire
Lighting Designer: Johanna Townsend
Choreographer and Movement Director: Angelo Smimmo
Intimacy Coordinator: Abigail Kessel
Assistant Conductor and Chorus Master: Henry Reavey
Assistant Director: Eleanor Strutt -
Gabriel von Eisenstein: Dominic Lee / Joshua Saunders
Rosalinde: Mariana Fernandes / Georgie Malcolm
Adele: Biqing Zhang / Samantha Hargreaves
Ida: Manon Ogwen Parry
Alfred: Sang Eup Son
Dr Falke: Hector Bloggs / Thomas McGowan
Dr Blind: Sonny Fielding
Frank: Thomas McGowan / Hector Bloggs
Prince Orlofsky: Karima El Demerdasch / Julia Merino
Frosch: Redmond SandersChorus
Alexandre Allix, Kristina Ammattil, Annabel Bigland, Twm Tegid Brunton, Max Catalano, Ona Cerniauskaite, Georgina Cohu, Jacob Dyksterhouse, William Prasetyo, Kayla Raschke, Max Robbins, Matias Carbonetti Schwanek, Charles Secombe , Cecily Shaw, Eva Stone-Barney, Hella Termeulen -
LONDON UNATTACHED - ANDREW LOHMANN
“In Guildhall School of Music and Drama’s new production of Die Fledermaus, revelry was in no short supply. Directed by Ashley Dean it was a masterpiece of consummate joy from start to finish.”
OPERA TODAY - ALEXANDER HALL
“Right at the start of the Guildhall School’s new production of this fizzy froth of fun, there is an ingenious link to one of the most successful musicals of the modern age, Cabaret. Before the overture concludes, Dr Falke himself bounds down the stairs of the auditorium and in true conférencier mode greets the audience with those memorable words, “Willkommen, Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren”. A sideways glance at Offenbach, one of the greatest purveyors of light opera, sees the members of the chorus dancing the can-can under a slightly raised curtain before receiving tickets to the grand party Dr Falke has organised… This sparkling production delivers not only an evening of high-class fun with its tale of mistaken identities and illicit liaisons, but is also testament to the quality of the combined Guildhall forces. It would not disgrace many a more luminous theatrical stage elsewhere.”
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ MUSIC OMH - SAM SMITH
“…every aspect of the performance is outstanding.”
© David Monteith-Hodge