​1979

​The Batignano Festival

Conductor
Director
Designers
Lighting

Jane Glover
Patrick Libby
Adam Pollock & Russell Craig
Matthew Richardson

IL COMBATTIMENTO DI TANCREDI E CLORINDA 

Music by Claudio Monteverdi
Text by Torquato Tasso ​

Testo
Tancredi
Clorinda

Henry Herford
Gary Bennett
Susan Moore

IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE 

Music by Claudio Monteverdi
Text by Ottavio Rinuccini ​

Amore
Venere
Plutone
Una Della Ingrate

Fiona Milne
Nuala Willis
John Tranter
Susan Moore ​

​ORONTEA 

Music by Marc Antonio Cesti
Libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini 

​Conductor
Director
Designer
Lighting

Jane Glover
Graham Vick
Adam Pollock
Matthew Richardson

Filosofia
Amore
Orontea
Creonte
Tibrino
Gelone
Corindo
Silandra
Alidoro
Aristea
Giacinta

Fiona Milne
Lesley Garrett
Clare Moll
Henry Herford
Lesley Garrett
John Rawnsley
John Angelo Messana
Patricia O’Neill
Alan Oke
Nuala Willis
Susan Moore 

At Riverside Studios, London 

ORONTEA 

Music by Marc Antonio Cesti
Libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini ​

​Conductor
Director
Designer
Lighting

Jane Glover 
Graham Vick
Adam Pollock 
Matthew Richardson

Filosofia
Amore
Orontea
Creonte
Tibrino
Gelone
Corindo
Silandra
Alidoro
Aristea
Giacinta

Fiona Milne
Lesley Garrett
Della Jones
Henry Herford
Lesley Garrett
John Michael Flanagan
John Angelo Messana
Patricia O’Neill
Robert Dean
Nuala Willis
Susan Moore 

​At The National Gallery London 

MONTEVERDI AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY

Conductor
Director
Designer
Lighting

Jane Glover
Patrick Libby
Adam Pollock
Matthew Richardson 

Altri Canti d’Amor 

Lesley Garrett, Diana Montague, Gary Bennett, John Potter, Ian Caddy, John Angelo Messana ​

Lamento d’Arianna 

Arianna Eiddwen Harrhy ​

Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda

Testo
Clorinda
Tancredi ​

Ian Caddy
Diana Montague
Gary Bennett 

Il Ballo delle Ingrate

Venere
Amore
Plutone
Heartless lady
Dancers

Diana Montague
Lesley Garrett
John Tranter
Eiddwen Harrhy 
Catherine Benson, Selina Gilbert, Terry Gilbert, John Angelo Messana, Florencio Morgado, Stephen Pickles, Patricia Rosario 

Lasciate mi Morir 
(Il sesto libro di madrigali a cinque voci)

Lesley Garrett, Diana Montague, John Potter, Gary Bennett, Ian Caddy. ​

​At The Round House London 

LOVE AND THE ICE CREAM VENDOR (LO SPEZIALE) 

Music by Franz Joseph Haydn
Libretto by Carlo Goldoni
Translation by Russell Davies ​

Conductor 
Director
Designer
Lighting

Jane Glover 
Patrick Libby 
Adam Pollock 
Matthew Richardson 

Sempronio
Mengone
Volpino
Grilletta

Frances Egerton
Bonaventura Bottone
Anna Benedict
Marie McLaughlin 

This production was the subject of a 1980 documentary, listed by the BFI, entitled Love And The Ice Cream Vendor, directed by Tony Cash and featuring Melvyn Bragg.

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