Partenope

Set + Costume Designer | Iford Opera, June 2018 | Adapted + Directed by Christopher Cowell (from Handel’s Partenope), Conductor Oliver Gooch, Lighting Matt Cater + Photographer Mitzi de Margary

Classical Naples here becomes an Eastern or African banana republic in the 1980s. Iford’s cloister is reimagined as the gaudy, palm-and-chandeliers palace of Partenope – a monarch whose taste in men is as questionable as her fondness for big hair, stretch pants and hot pinks / The Arts Desk