Royal Northern College of Music - Manchester
Director Orpha Phelan
Set and Costume Designer Anna Bonomelli
Lighting Designer Matt Haskins
Conductor Andrew Greenwood
Photo credits Robert Workman
‘ Bravo to Anna Bonomelli on this superb design, both the set and costumes were a triumph. The set was very minimalist in its concept, but complex in its reality, with two floors, a moving staircase and a very realistic early autumn tree, which created a perfect colour palette, set against the black floor and white walls. The set fit the vision of the show perfectly, a modern but modest convent setting. ‘
Harriet Andrews
‘The staging was superb, beautifully designed and evocatively lit. The main set was split into two levels, both painted a pristine white, the lower level sometimes looking like a Dutch painting drained of all colour by the stark white light. This was desecrated in Act III by the brief incursion of the Revolutionaries who had ripped the religious symbols off the walls, sprayed the lower walls with the slogan “god is dead”, the staircase with the word ‘liars’, and the upper wall with an anarchist symbol.’
Nick Holmes
‘With such drama set against the backdrop of the French Revolution stage director Orpha Phelan and set and costume designer Anna Bonomelli were skilled in bringing forward the action to modern times fashioning the drama with extremely memorable sets, lighting and smart stage effects.‘
Michael Cookson
‘Anna Bonomelli’s starkly monochromatic set that mostly featuring a cut-through convent building in modernist lines, with matching costumes, reinforced this emphasis onto the young singers. ‘
Thalia Terpsichore