Sense & Sensibility. The Musical Julie Peakman 20/08/2025Wow it’s an opera! The opening song jolts our attention as players start to sing ‘Its Society’. The title of...
Mary, Queen of Scots Ben Reiss 18/08/2025The life of Mary, Queen of Scots lends itself to endless retelling, being an inherently dramatic tale of ambition, conflict...
Book of Mountains and Seas Ben Reiss 15/08/2025Out of a deep black stage, the faces of six female singers appear, each lit from above with a single...
BREL Thibault Elie 18/07/2025BREL – Can You Dance to a Legend? Attending a performance at the mythical Carrière de Boulbon, about fifteen kilometers...
Le Nozze di Figaro Marc Berman 01/07/2025Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro is the quintessential Glyndebourne opera. It opened the house in 1934 and had been performed...
Fidelio Marc Berman 30/06/2025The bucolic surroundings of Garsington Opera – complete with stately home, sumptuous gardens, a lake and its own herd of...
The Merry Widow Owen Davies 24/06/2025This wonderful bit of nonsense was first performed in Austria just before Christmas 1905. It is a Viennese operetta with...
Madama Butterfly Owen Davies 12/06/2025This opera may be one of Puccini’s finest musically but the story is centred on another of his doomed heroines...
La Traviata Owen Davies 07/06/2025This opera is Verdi’s version of the story of Marguerite Gautier, the “fallen woman” of the title of Dumas’ novelised...
Compañía Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco Hafiza Butt 05/06/2025The revelation of love is that nothing else matters—not even the capitulation of the other. To love greatly is, of...
