Alona Szostak in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Gdansk Shakespeare Festival 2019 Rivka Jacobson Interviews 24/08/2019
Reviewer's Rating Trouble in Tahiti Tim Hochstrasser 11/08/2023‘Trouble in Tahiti’ is a good fit for scheduling at Grimeborn. A not-so-well-known one-act opera by Leonard Bernstein deserves another...
Reviewer's Rating The Sphere of Light Tim Hochstrasser 08/08/2023Hever Castle, childhood home of Ann Boleyn, hosts a theatre festival every year, and it therefore is a natural ambience...
Reviewer's Rating Romeo and Juliet Tim Hochstrasser 07/08/2023I am fortunate to have seen Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet three times now – back in 2019 for the...
Reviewer's Rating Opera in Song – Vissi d’Arte Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2023At the centre of Opera Holland Park’s season each year now is a charming and absorbing three-concert interlude that explores...
Reviewer's Rating No For An Answer Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2023‘There are Bernsteins and Blitzsteins, And flop Steins and hit Steins’, sings Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’. Well, we all know...
Reviewer's Ratings Classical Pride Tim Hochstrasser 10/07/2023Remarkably, this concert in the Barbican Hall was apparently the very first in which a leading orchestra participated front-and-centre with...
Reviewer's Rating Antigone Tim Hochstrasser 08/07/2023This new adaptation by Stef Smith of the Greek classic has a lot going for it but also some significant...
Reviewer's Rating Song From Far Away Tim Hochstrasser 01/07/2023This elegiac but rigorously unsentimental play with music received fine reviews in Manchester at the start of the year and...
Reviewer's Rating Stumped Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2023‘Stumped’ is one of those plays that works on different levels, and indeed it is that cannily calibrated multi-layered appeal...
Reviewer's Rating The Third Man Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2023Does every play, film or opera have the potential to become a musical? This is the question posed by the...
