On the opening night ensemble and particularly balance were problematic at times. Scottish Opera’s orchestra is situated in the production hangar to the side of the stage, the sound brought to cast and audience via amplification, the singers similarly amplified for the audience. In an outdoor setting production logistics are complex. McVicar has some fun with the drunken rustics, Pistol (Alastair Miles) and particularly Jamie MacDougall’s gleefully Scottish Bardolph. Verdi’s late-flowering comedy is also a triumph of young love over experience, and here Gemma Summerfield and Elgan Llyr Thomas give a particularly glowing account of the young lovers Nannetta and Fenton. For all the comedy, there is also pathos, the sense of a man who knows his days of glory are past, but too vain to fully accept present reality.įalstaff is above all an ensemble comedy and Scottish Opera has assembled a cast to do it justice Elizabeth Llewellyn (Alice Ford), Sioned Gwen Davies (Meg Page) and Louise Winter (Mistress Quickly) the trio of sharp-witted women who outwit the rather slower men, Phillip Rhodes’s Ford and Aled Hall’s Dr Caius. His Falstaff, while undeniably larger than life, is more than just caricature. Photograph: Credit James Glossopĭonning the splendid prosthetic belly of the title role is Roland Wood, who has been something of a Scottish Opera stalwart in recent years. More than just caricature … Roland Wood as Falstaff, in Scottish Opera’s 2021 production.
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