Lirica Arts presents "The Blissful Deception" L'inganno Felice by Gioacchino Rossini

Lirica Arts Singapore presents its inaugural fully staged opera with Gioacchino Rossini’s highly acclaimed one-act masterpiece L’inganno Felice (The Blissful Deception) on the 5th and 6th March 2022 at the NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre. This Singapore premiere is the local opera society’s second public performance, after its sold-out debut NO TENORS ALLOWED, a recital of soprano-baritone duets presented in September 2021.
Lirica Art’s L’Inganno Felice (The Blissful Deception) can proudly lay claim as the second opera by Rossini to be fully staged in Singapore (after the Singapore Lyric Opera productions of The Barber of Seville in 2007 and 1992). Boasting an entirely Singaporean cast, this attests that our local opera singers have reached the maturity to tackle the difficult technical demands of bel canto repertory, which is so rarely staged in Singapore.
The opera tells of the faithful wife who, unjustly accused of infidelity and cruelly abandoned at sea, through a series of schemes and manoeuvres, wins back her husband’s love and is happily reconciled.
Director Tang Xinxin’s “impressionistic” approach transplants the opera to an unknown era in olden China, enhanced by an abstract and minimalistic set by production designer Dorothy Png with costumes designed by Theresa Chan. Singaporean conductor Lien Boon Hua leads the Wayfarer Sinfonietta, a young chamber orchestra founded in 2021 to present symphonic music in innovative ways.
NAFA Lee Foundation Theatre
5th March 2022 (Saturday, 8 pm) and 6th March 2022 (Sunday, 4 pm)
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Libretto by Giuseppe Foppa
Cast
Isabella/Nisa Joyce Lee Tung
Duke Bertrando Jonathan Charles Tay
Tarabotto David Tao
Ormondo William Lim
Batone Martin Ng
Creative Team:
Conductor Lien Boon Hua
Director Tang Xinxin
Production Designer Dorothy Png
Costume Designer Theresa Chan
Wayfarer Sinfonietta