The Cast

EUSTACHIO DE SAINT PIERRE
- Christian du Plessis
AURELIO - Della Jones
ELEONORA - Nuccia Focile
GIOVANNI D'AIRE
- Rico Serbo
GIACOMO DE WISANTS
- Paul Nilon
PIETRO DE WISANTS
- Ian Platt
ARMANDO - Mark Glanville
EDOARDO III
- Russell Smythe
ISABELLA
- Eiddwen Harrhy
EDMONDO
- John Treleaven
(PMF Scholar)
UN INCOGNITO
- Norman Bailey

Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Philharmonia Orchestra
CONDUCTOR - David Parry

Gramophone

'L'assedio... proves to be no run-of-the-mill opera but a moving, imaginative composition, finely constructed dramatically, and musically a thorough piece of work with interest in the orchestral score as well as the vocal parts.

The performance does the work full justice. Christian du Plessis and Della Jones head a cast of predominantly British singers who meet the technical demands with plenty of spirit and without fuss. Nuccia Focile makes a promising debut on record. And David Parry conducts with care for detail as well as a sure feeling for idiom...'