![]() Three minutes in you think “all this needs is a Vespa” – and, presto pronto, on it rolls. Daniel Evans’s production, with sets by Robert Jones and gorgeous Dior-style costumes by Brigitte Reiffenstuel, is stylish even while it brings out all the cliches. Elizabeth Spencer’s original story, inspired by her own travels, was published in 1960, the year of La Dolce Vita, though it has more in common with 1953’s Roman Holiday. Italy is in every moment of Adam Guettel’s musical – or at least an idealised Italy, as comfortingly picturesque as the London of a Richard Curtis film.įirst staged in 2003, with a book by Craig Lucas, The Light in the Piazza scooped half a dozen Tony awards for its Broadway production in 2005. ![]() And if her character – Margaret Johnson, a 1950s American tourist in Florence losing her daughter Clara to a whirlwind romance – is going to blame her confusion on anything it might as well be that. ‘T his is what Italy does to you,” growls Renée Fleming as the plot of The Light in the Piazza reaches its most tangled point. ![]()
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