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The Medium – Slide 05
‘Madame Flora has set herself up in the remains of an industrial building whose steel beams hang twisted from above. When massive doors at the rear are opened, a battered skyline looms. Madame Flora becomes no mere crook, but an ageing woman struggling for survival after Armageddon.’
Lucrezia Borgia – Slide 19
‘It was refreshing to encounter a director who did not flinch at the homosexual relationship between Gennaro, Lucrezia’s illegitimate son, and his young lover Maffio Orsini (a contralto trouser role)’
Lucrezia Borgia – Slide 12
‘The visual elements work well within the shadowy world Pascoe has created, a world of towering sixteenth-century Italian walls that frame the well-paced action’
Lucrezia Borgia – Slide 10
‘The only genuinely romantic relationship is the friendship between Gennaro and his warrior sidekick Maffio Orsini … Pascoe essentially presents these friends as lovers … Donizetti’s duets for them, when they swear to remain together until death, are the opera’s most tenderly beguiling moments.’
Lucrezia Borgia – Slide 08
‘Central to the design were gigantic stone walls, first parting in welcome to the carnival atmosphere of Venice, the endless party town, then closing ominously to lock the characters and the audience in.’
Lucrezia Borgia – Slide 02
‘Pascoe’s gowns for Miss Fleming were arrestingly beautiful, and her warrior garb for the final scene was breathtaking.’
