Reviewer's Rating Vanessa Tim Hochstrasser 10/08/2018Samuel Barber’s Vanessa (1958) is a work at once accessible and elusive, and a successful production revolves around breaking down...
Reviewer's Rating Broken Wings Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2018Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese prose-poet, is still little known in the West despite the fact that his writings, in both...
Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2018As the final opera this season Opera Holland Park presents the second and usually performed version of ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’....
Reviewer's Rating Isabeau Tim Hochstrasser 25/07/2018Each year Opera Holland Park includes one less well known or even forgotten work from the era of Puccini. This...
Reviewer's Rating Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2018This opera matinee has become not just a focal point for the Jette Parker Young Artists themselves at the end...
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...
