POV BRINGS IT ALL TOGETHER FOR MARY’S WEDDING
“As directed by Michael Shamata, the opera, like the play, is often moving and always highly theatrical. (Both acts culminate in a terrific finale that includes a stylishly staged battle scene.) The production, designed by Ian Rye (set and costumes) and Alan Brodie (lighting), is beautiful and sometimes arresting to look at. The stage, bare but for a tree and some transient furnishings, is dominated by a striking backdrop and by three asymmetrical, undulating ramps that keep the stage traffic interesting and appropriately suggest, at different times, farmland, the sea and trenches.”   Kevin Bazzana, Times Colonist