In this exuberant production at the Royal College of Music, directed by Donald Maxwell and Linda Ormiston and updated to Berlusconi’s Bunga Bunga Italy of the 1990s, Rossini’s comic opera certainly dazzles us, not only with some exciting singing from the fresh voices in the RCM Opera School, but also with fabulous costumes by Jools Osborne and team, and vibrant choreography by Louisa McAlpine… not to mention an unforgettable pantomime camel!

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Just add a Rossini comic opera…