Reviewer's Rating The Daughter of the Regiment Owen Davies 04/08/2018Opera Della Luna has an admirable track record of revitalising old comic operas. Its guiding spirit, Jeff Clarke, has taken...
Reviewer's Rating The Boatswain’s Mate Owen Davies 04/08/2018The Grimeborn opera season at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston always throws up some fascinating curiosities – this charming comic...
Reviewer's Rating L’incoronazione di Poppea Mel Cooper 01/08/2018In our era in which politics has become egregiously dysfunctional, and in which so many politicians seem to have lost...
Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Mel Cooper 18/07/2018Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...
Reviewer's Rating Ti Vedo, Ti Sento, Mi Perdo Katherine Syer 16/07/2018The life of Alessandro Stradella, the 17th-century composer whose colourful affairs paved the way to his contracted murder, inspired several...
La Traviata Mel Cooper 28/06/2018With their new production of Verdi’s seminal middle period work La Traviata, this summer’s Longborough Opera Festival has created one...
Reviewer's Rating Lohengrin Rivka Jacobson 14/06/2018Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin first premiered in the provincial city Weimar on 28 August 1850. The date is crucial, as German...
Reviewer's Rating Der Fliegende Holländer Mel Cooper 13/06/2018The team at the Longborough Festival have managed to produce a Flying Dutchman that will itself live in legend, I...
Reviewer's Rating The Nightingale and Other Short Fables Aparna Halpé 30/04/2018It was with something akin to despair that I realized I was coming down with the flu two days before...
Reviewer's Rating 4.48 Psychosis Owen Davies 26/04/2018“Behold the light of despair, the glare of anguish”. It is so difficult to know where to start with this...
