Reviewer's Rating Orpheus and Eurydice Tim Hochstrasser 15/10/2019Gluck’s contribution to the development of opera is still under-appreciated, straddling as he does the transition between the Baroque and...
Reviewer's rating Noises Off Tim Hochstrasser 05/10/2019‘Noises Off’ was first seen as long ago as 1982, and its many revivals since have ensured that it now...
Reviewer's rating Amsterdam Tim Hochstrasser 15/09/2019This new play is a joint production between the Orange Tree Theatre and the Actors Touring Company. It is also...
Reviewer's Rating Hansard Tim Hochstrasser 06/09/2019As you take your seat the music of ‘The Lark Ascending’ washes across a stage carrying the outlines of a...
Reviewer's rating Les Damnés Tim Hochstrasser 24/06/2019This first collaboration between director Ivo van Hove and the Comédie-Française is also the company’s first visit to this country...
Reviewer's Rating Cendrillon Tim Hochstrasser 18/06/2019Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s late nineteenth-century version of the Cinderella story, which takes the gist of the familiar fairy story...
Reviewers Rating Afterglow Tim Hochstrasser 14/06/2019Afterglow enjoyed a very successful off-Broadway run in 2017-18 and now opens with a new cast and creative team at...
Reviewer's rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2019This production represents Opera Holland Park at its best in making a fully persuasive case for an opera that often...
Reviewer's Rating Andrea Chénier Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019When this opera had its first performance at La Scala in 1896 the ‘verismo’ style of operatic writing was at...
Reviewer's Rating The Damnation of Faust Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019‘La damnation de Faust’ is, even by Berlioz’ standards, an odd work. Neither opera nor oratorio, but a self-styled ‘dramatic...
