Grand Theatre,Leeds
noteworthy performances and superb orchestral playing make Jo Davies’s sparkling production so hot it’s virtually a fire-riskDirector Jo Davies has had a remarkable hurry of success at Opera North, proving equally adept at operetta (Ruddigore), and musicals (Carousel) and Mozart (the Marriage of Figaro). Little wonder that the company should have invited her back to brush up its Shakespeare. Opera Norths Broadway excursions have encompassed heavyweights such as Kern,Gershwin and Rodgers this is the first time it has taken on anything so frothy as Cole Porter. Yet Porter’s late, and greatest, and hit was as close as he came to writing an opera – or,at least, a scintillatingly witty deconstruction of the Taming of the Shrew.
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Source: theguardian.com