Alona Szostak in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Gdansk Shakespeare Festival 2019 Rivka Jacobson 24/08/2019On the morning of 1st of August 2019, at the friendly Dom Muzyka hotel in Gdansk, while having coffee and...
Reviewer's rating Tristan und Isolde Bayreuth 2019 Tony Cooper 20/08/2019Arguably, one of the greatest works ever written to pure erotic love echoing the legendary days of King Arthur, Tristan...
Parsifal Bayreuth 2019 Tony Cooper 18/08/2019Specifically written for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the...
Reviewer's rating Médée Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 15/08/2019Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality...
Reviewer's rating Lohengrin Bayreuth Festival 2019 Tony Cooper 15/08/2019This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon – born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2019This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been...
Reviewer's Rating Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Bayreuther Festspiele Tony Cooper 13/08/2019Flamboyant and a wonderfully quirky director Barrie Kosky’s innovative production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first seen at Bayreuth...
Reviewer's rating The Merchant of Venice (Kupiec wenecki) Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 08/08/2019This play makes uncomfortable viewing for many Jews and for many non-Jewish people concerned about the resurgence of anti-Semitism among...
Reviewer's Rating Cyrano de Bergerac Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 07/08/2019In Paris in 1640, the brilliant poet and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself in love of his beautiful cousin...
Reviewer's Rating Monica (This Play is Not About Monica Lewinsky) Austin Fimmano 05/08/2019Monica Lewinsky: a name practically dripping with sex, shame, pity…a whole range of emotions that have been preserved in the...
