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The Magic Flute

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 ...
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Carmen
Grimeborn Festival 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...
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La Donna del Lago

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...
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Incoronazione di Poppea

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...
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Mansfield Park

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...
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Antonio e Cleopatra

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...
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Don Giovanni

This Welsh National Opera production of Don Giovanni has many merits - a fine orchestra, a bold design, some wonderful singing.  It offers a convincin...
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Les Indes Galantes

Marcio da Silva's groundbreaking company Ensemble Orquesta (EO) is fast developing an enviable reputation for bringing rare baroque treasures to the o...
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The Marriage of Figaro

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...