Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s...
Reviewer's Rating The Lehman Trilogy Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Three brothers, in three acts, and spread over three generations: this is the pattern for Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano...
Reviewer's Rating The Turn of the Screw Tim Hochstrasser 30/06/2018Britten’s The Turn of the Screw was premiered as long ago as 1954, his first project after the relative failure...
Reviewer's Rating Alexandra Waierstall — And here we meet Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2018The relationship between text and dance is at once both tense and potentially rewarding to each. Dance can illustrate or...
Reviewer's Rating Portraits in Otherness Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2018As a primarily non-verbal creative medium dance is always a challenge to the reviewer trying to find suitable words that...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi Fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 04/06/2018A really fine performance of this opera is very rare: often productions veer too much in the direction of cheap...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Tim Hochstrasser 02/06/2018‘La Traviata’ stands alongside ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Rigoletto’ as one of the three operas that launch Verdi’s middle period when...
Reviewer's Rating The Tap Pack Tim Hochstrasser 08/05/2018The Tap Pack is a well-established Australian touring group of exceptional tap dancers – precise, balletic and athletic – who...
Reviewer's Rating The Mayfly Tim Hochstrasser 01/05/2018The challenges and often gritty realities of English rural life are not examined often enough by contemporary playwrights, and Joe...
Reviewer's Rating Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Tim Hochstrasser 16/04/2018If ever one doubts the destructive power of a bad review, then Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk provides the sharpest reminder....
