Wilton’s Music Hall

We went last night to a performance of L’Ospedale at Wilton’s Music Hall.   It was the first time we had been back to it since its renovation by Tim Ronalds, funded by the HLF.   We were worried, because nothing is harder to restore than crumbling magnificence (see what happened to Christ Church, Spitalfields).   But, miracle of miracles, it is the same, only better, just as rundown and shabby, with a bar next door to the theatre and a mass of old wood and peeling paint, but now a lift (we were its first users).   There was a performance of L’Ospedale, a hitherto unknown mid-seventeenth-century opera by an unknown composer on the problems of seventeenth-century medicine, performed as if it was the NHS:  a brilliant production by a young and newly formed musical collective called Solomon’s Knot:-

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2 thoughts on “Wilton’s Music Hall

  1. Rupert Christiansen's avatar Rupert Christiansen says:

    He has done a brilliant job, hasn’t he? and all that distressed look completely faked! Apparently, the ROH is moving in there for three months while its Linbury Studio is being remodelled.
    So sad that the brilliant director Frances Mayhew, who saw the scheme through, “left” just after the opening

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