Reviewer's Rating La bohème Owen Davies 13/09/2017ovent Garden’s new production of La Bohème, replacing the much loved Copley version which has been re-appearing for forty years,...
Reviewer's Rating Samson and Delilah Owen Davies 18/08/2017ne of the many things to admire about Arcola’s Grimeborn season is the multinational nature of many of the operas....
Reviewer's Rating Armide Owen Davies 11/08/2017rcola’s Grimeborn season often includes rarely performed operas. Lully’s Armide is a brave excursion into French baroque opera. It is...
Reviewer's Rating The Silken Ladder/A Husband at the Door Owen Davies 03/08/2017rcola’s Grimeborn opera season has a deserved reputation for discovering neglected treasures. For this event, Opera Alegria has found two...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Kim K Owen Davies 27/07/2017rcola’s Grimeborn season kicks off in style with this ingenious re-imagining of Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro. It is more musical...
Reviewer's Rating Turandot Owen Davies 07/07/2017urandot was Puccini’s last opera – indeed, he died before it was finished and the version we now hear is...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Owen Davies 07/07/2017he plays of Shakespeare have provided plenty of plots for the composers of opera. Verdi famously used Othello and Falstaff,...
Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier Owen Davies 03/07/2017osenkavalier is a wonderful opera. It has some of the most superb music ever written for women’s voices and it...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Owen Davies 01/07/2017range Park Opera has moved to Horsley in Surrey. A new opera house is being built in the grounds of...
Reviewer's Rating L’Incoronazione di Poppea Owen Davies 09/05/2017s part of the celebration of the birth of Monteverdi 450 years ago, Sir John Eliot Gardiner has developed concert...