Reviewer's Rating Carmen Owen Davies 05/03/2020This splendid production of Carmen shows off the substantial talents of the Welsh National Opera team at their best. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2020Some say that Mozart’s revolutionary opera, The Marriage of Figaro, should really be called The Marriage of Susanna. Welsh National...
Reviewer's rating Opera Undone: Tosca & La Boheme Rivka Jacobson 02/03/2020Take two of Puccini’s most popular operas – Tosca and La Boheme and reduce them into one hour each, edit...
Reviewer's rating Il Barbiere Di Saviglia Shmuel Ben-Tovim 01/03/2020When I first spotted “Il Barbiere Di Saviglia” on the yearly programme of the Israeli Opera, my immediate reaction was:...
Reviewer's Rating Madam Butterfly Owen Davies 28/02/2020This production of Madam Butterfly, created by film maker Anthony Minghella, was first seen at English National Opera in 2005....
Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Alessandro Zummo 28/02/2020Verdi’s last opera is a real artistic testament to the career of a composer who until the very end never...
Reviewer's Rating Il Diluvio Universale Owen Davies 26/02/2020Musica Antica Rotherhithe is a group of enterprising young performers who mostly perform rare pieces of music from the baroque...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflote Owen Davies 18/02/2020This extraordinary production of The Magic Flute was first performed in Germany in 2012 and has since travelled around the...
Reviewer's ratinge Luisa Miller Tim Hochstrasser 14/02/2020‘Luisa Miller’ is rarely performed but is still an opera of great interest, both in itself and for where it...
Reviewer's Rating Alice’s Adventures Under Ground Grace Creaton-Barber 06/02/2020Alice’s Adventures Under Ground saps the wonder out of Wonderland. In striving to produce a frenzied and maddening performance that...
