5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The Magic Flute Owen Davies 19/08/2022 This utterly absorbing retelling of The Magic Flute is a triumph for Opera Alegria – and for the Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn season. I must confess to ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022 The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance to experience performances that th...
3.0★ ★ ★ Black the Clown Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 06/08/2022 Opera in Spain was influenced by the Italian tradition that dominated the rest of Europe in the period after 1800. But it managed to maintain its own ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ La Donna del Lago Owen Davies 29/07/2022 Rossini wrote some 39 operas and is best remembered for his comedies, particularly The Barber of Seville, but his output was evenly balanced between c...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Incoronazione di Poppea Owen Davies 28/07/2022 Monteverdi was a venerable and celebrated church musician of 75 when he wrote Poppea. It was quite common for church composers to supplement their inc...
3.0★ ★ ★ Mansfield Park Owen Davies 28/07/2022 As a lover of Jane Austen's novels, I have always felt that they do not offer the sort of dramatic set pieces that opera needs. So I have mixed feelin...
3.0★ ★ ★ Antonio e Cleopatra Owen Davies 26/07/2022 Johann Hasse was one of the most popular opera composers of the eighteenth century. He died in 1783 (just 8 years before Mozart's death) but he was 84...
3.0★ ★ ★ Don Giovanni Owen Davies 10/04/2022 This Welsh National Opera production of Don Giovanni has many merits - a fine orchestra, a bold design, some wonderful singing. It offers a convincin...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Les Indes Galantes Owen Davies 17/02/2022 Marcio da Silva's groundbreaking company Ensemble Orquesta (EO) is fast developing an enviable reputation for bringing rare baroque treasures to the o...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 07/11/2021 Mozart's masterpiece, the Marriage of Figaro, is a work of such musical beauty and comic invention that it can always be counted on to charm an audien...
