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...
reviewer's rating Henry IV Part 2 or ‘Falstaff’ Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2019In mounting the Henry IV and V plays as the opening trilogy of this year’s season Michelle Terry is inviting...
Reviewer's Rating La Fiesta Tim Hochstrasser 02/05/2019In the best of flamenco you are drawn deeper and deeper into the emotional meaning of the piece through the...
Reviewer's Rating Man of La Mancha Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2019Despite many successful revivals in the USA this musical has – incredibly – not been seen in London for fifty...
Reviewer's Rating The Bay at Nice Tim Hochstrasser 24/03/2019The Bay at Nice was first seen as part of a double bill at the National Theatre back in 1986....
Reviewer's Rating Midsummer Night’s Dream Tim Hochstrasser 13/03/2019Britten is often thought of as a precocious composer, enjoying a brilliant success as a young man, especially in opera,...
