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"Noye's Fludde"
(Britten)

Directed by Andrea Mellis
(Austrian Première)

Minoritenkirche, Vienna 4th May 1995

SEM
“Sir! Sir! Sir!
Heare are lions, leapardes, in,
Horses, mares, oxen, swyne,
Gootes and caulfe, sheepe and kine,
Heare coming thou may see.”


Andrea Mellis’s direction....is a triumph of naturalness and liveliness.

Wiener Zeitung 5th May 1995

Mrs NOYE and GOSSIPS
“Heare is a pottill of Malmsine, good and strong;
It will rejoice bouth harte and tonge, and tonge;
Though Noye think us never so longe,
Heare we will drinke alike,
Heare we will drinke alike,
Will drinke alike, will drinke, drinke, drinke, drinke....”


Under no circumstances should one miss this magnificent production of a masterpiece.

Wiener Zeitung 5th May 1995

“Eternal Father, strong to save,
Whose arm doth bind the restless wave,
Who bidd’st the mighty ocean deep
Its own appointed limits keep:
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea.”


Mariahilfer Oper has been sensationally successful in presenting the first performance of this Britten work in the country.

Wiener Zeitung 5th May 1995

GOD’S VOICE
“My blessings, Noye, I give thee heare
To thee Noye, my servante deare,
For vengeance shall noe more appeare,
And nowe fare well, my darlinge deare.”


The performance is in the highest degree true to the work.

Wiener Zeitung 5th May 1995