Written on Skin Owen Davies 14/01/2017 Written on Skin is George Benjamin’s second opera and, in this work, the full benefits of his partnership with writer Martin Crimp are revealed. The s...
Lulu Owen Davies 11/11/2016 Lulu is a difficult opera to watch at any time – on the day of the US election result it seemed even harder on the emotions than usual. The connection...
The Nose Owen Davies 22/10/2016 The Nose is Shostakovich’s first opera. It was written around 1926/7 during that all too brief period when avant-garde art flourished under the new Bo...
The Dresser Owen Davies 14/10/2016 The Dresser is a play about theatre and theatricality. It focuses on the relationships between the members of a touring repertory company bringing Sha...
Don Giovanni Owen Davies 10/10/2016 I begin with a confession. As a Mozart enthusiast, I went to the ENO’s dress rehearsal of Don Giovanni …. and hated it! Two weeks later I went again t...
Cosi Fan Tutte Owen Davies 23/09/2016 Covent Garden’s new production of Cosi Fan Tutte is fizzing with fresh ideas. Young German director, Jan Philipp Glogier, paints Don Alfonso as a surr...
Le Nozze di Figaro Owen Davies 22/08/2016 Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro returns to the Sussex opera house in the production first put together by director Michael Grandage in 2012. It has lost n...
Thunderstorm Owen Davies 16/08/2016 The Shanghai Opera and Ballet Companies are at the Coliseum in London for a limited season. The opera that is part of this season is Thunderstorm, an ...
Young Chekhov Owen Davies 04/08/2016 At the Olivier Theatre on the South Bank it is now possible – if you have the stamina - to see, on one day, the first three plays written by the great...
Tristan and Isolde Owen Davies 16/07/2016 Tristan and Isolde is an opera that stirs strong reactions among opera lovers. That Grange Park decided to mount it in what they describe as a “concer...
