I’m not sure how many of the audience at The Grange for the first of two
performances of Jonathan Dove’s opera were Austen aficionados but the
foot-stamping reception that the full house gave the composer’s newly
orchestrated opera suggested that they thought he’d told a good tale.
Indeed, Dove and his librettist Alasdair Middleton, did provide us with a
charming entertainment which was stylishly and slickly staged by director
Martin Lloyd-Evans and designer Dick Bird, and I was undoubtedly in a
minority, though not wholly alone, in finding the opera more divertissement than drama.
Source: Opera Today
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