Rodelinda
"David Fielding's production for Grange Park Opera is the first here to be sung in Russian and, while it's easy to understand why it has been neglected, the increasingly implausible plot and grande guignol finale carry with them some astonishing, full-blooded music, in which Tchaikovsky's melodic invention is at full throttle."
"Enchantress David Fielding's powerful production transports the action to a modern Russian provincial city, decorated in livid pink and inhabited by drunken military and well-heeled Mafia. It builds to a startling climax of surreal mayhem, but otherwise plays it for all the B-picture realism it's worth."
- by Hans-Theodor Wohlfahrt
"David Fielding, responsible for production and design, as well as his lighting designer Wolfgang Goebbel, created a contemporary Russian spectacle of sheer exuberance, be it in life or death. The casting could not have been better anywhere. . Everybody was outstanding. The last scene, when Mamirov triumphs over a self inflicted bloodbath, resembled a Last Judgement painted by Dali."
by
Fiona Maddocks
"You could do it all with mirrors. Director-designer David Fielding uses one in this outstanding production, which must have had a tiny budget but with only a little more gloss and finish could easily grace the Coliseum stage."
