Oedipe Owen Davies 24/05/2016 George Enescu is a Romanian national treasure who spent much of his creative life in Paris. His status in Europe as a virtuoso violinist and as a comp...
Pia de’Tolomei Owen Davies 29/04/2016 English Touring Opera has a fine record of bringing little known Donizetti operas on tour and providing inventive productions with promising young sin...
Clybourne Park Owen Davies 28/04/2016 After fifteen minutes of this play I was thinking that it was a bit like an old US TV sitcom but with worse jokes – an extended and unfunny riff on th...
Deathwatch Owen Davies 28/04/2016 Jean Genet was the archetypal outsider playwright. Immersed in the criminal underworld from an early age, he was imprisoned repeatedly until, in 1949,...
The Non-Stop Connolly Show Owen Davies 07/04/2016 This year sees the centenary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Though the insurrection was defeated and some of its leaders were executed, the Rising i...
I Capuleti e I Montecchi Owen Davies 02/04/2016 Bellini’s version of Romeo and Juliet is not one of his more popular works but Popup Opera makes a compelling case for its virtues. There is plenty of...
Fifth Column Owen Davies 02/04/2016 This is not an easy drama to like. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899 and this is his only play. It is loosely autobiographical – it tells the story of...
Cosi Fan Tutte Owen Davies 13/03/2016 Cosi fan Tutte is an opera that is perfect for cutting down to its essentials. The chorus is easily dispensable and the series of solos, duets, and en...
Cosi: The Play Owen Davies 13/03/2016 Louis Nowra’s comedy is set in a psychiatric hospital in Australia in 1970. A young director is asked by a social worker at the hospital to help a gro...
The Rinse Cycle Owen Davies 22/02/2016 This brilliant show is described by the creative team at Unexpected Opera as “Wagner’s Ring Cycle conditioned with comedy and shrunk to two hours”. Th...
