The Bear
An Extravaganza in One Act by William Walton and Paul Dehn, based on the play by Anton Chekhov.
A delightfully domestic comedy from the team that brought you Britten's The Turn of the Screw (Trinity College Wren Library Cloister, 2009) and Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (West Road Concert Hall, 2011).
Popova, a pretty widow affectedly faithful to the memory of her late and, alas, promiscuous, husband is confronted by Smirnov, one of her husband's more boorish creditors. They quarrel to a point at which each aims a loaded pistol at the other, but neither can fire.
They have both fallen helplessly in love.
Cast and Production Team
| Director | Claudia Parkes |
| Designer | Georgia de Grey |
| Conductor | Christopher Stark |
| Producer | Edmund Irwin-Singer |
Cast
| Luka | Laurence Williams (Choral Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge) |
| Popova | Fiona Mackay (Royal Academy of Music Opera Course) |
| Smirnov | Michael Craddock (Choral Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge) |