A Midsummer Night's Dream
Opera North, October 2024
"The orchestra, under the baton of Garry Walker, expresses Britten’s ever-shifting score with subtlety and passion."
Mark Brown, The Telegraph
"ON Music Director Garry Walker lovingly nuances the kaleidoscopic colours of Britten’s score to create an ethereal magic carpet of sound."
Geoffrey Mogridge, Ilkley Gazette
"Opera North’s music director Garry Walker handles the score deftly - ... full of life, precision and energy."
Robert Beale, The Arts Desk
"From the opening moments, when conductor Garry Walker brings the low, swooping strings to life, and the fairies, in their matching blond wigs, white shorts and tops, with black, feathery wings, are visible behind the Perspex screen, the eery atmosphere is set, and the orchestra brings out Britten’s musical jokes and changes of style."
Catriona Graham, The Opera Critic
"Garry Walker conducts the Orchestra of Opera North in a reading that transports us to the land of fairies and sprites in an instant (almost inaudible at first) and crisply supports the singers while never overwhelming them."
Robert Beale, Theatre Reviews North