ORONTEA | Pinchgut Opera
Irresistibly charming and wickedly funny, Orontea deftly combines Cesti’s melodic inventiveness with Cicognini’s clever and comic libretto. Set in a heightened contemporary world somewhere between Egypt and Las Vegas, this stylised production combines stunning imagery with seamless choreography and outright absurdity.
CREATIVE TEAM
Conductor - Erin Helyard
Director - Constantine Costi
Choreographer | Movement Director - Shannon Burns
Costume Designer - Sabina Myers
Designer - Jeremy Allen
Lighting Designer - Damien Cooper
CAST
Orontea - Anna Dowsley
Aristea - Dominica Matthews
Alidoro - Jonathan Abernethy
Giacinta - Roberta Diamond
Silandra - Sofia Troncoso
Tibrino - Louis Hurley
Corindo - Douglas Kelly
Gelone - Andrew O’Connor
Creonte - David Greco
Orchestra of the Antipodes
DANCERS
Filosofia/Waiter - Allie Graham
Amore - Ryan Smith
Sailor/Waiter - Heath Keating
Brett Boardman Photography
“This agile production by Constantine Costi with beguilling choreography by Shannon Burns continues Pinchgut’s tradition of playfully reinventing ancient works within a modern dramatic vocabulary, enlivened with generous splashes of the absurd.”
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD