Reviewer's rating Les Contes d’Hoffmann Yael Shuv 10/11/2022Jacques Offenbach’s beloved opera, inspired by the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann, is a challenging piece of theatre to...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Owen Davies 08/11/2022This extraordinary opera by Janacek remains an enigma to me. Its bizarre mix of two stories – one about a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohéme Rivka Jacobson 16/10/2022Paris. An attic with no heating on Christmas eve, with four artists- Rodolfo, a poet, Marcello, a painter, Schaunard, a musician and...
Reviewer's rating Cherry Town Moscow Owen Davies 14/10/2022WNO Youth Opera has been tasked with bringing this strange operetta by Shostakovich to life. First performed in 1959 near...
Reviewer's rating Bluebeard’s Castle Owen Davies 04/09/2022Bartok’s 1918 one-act “expressionist” opera Bluebeard’s Castle is a work that is puzzling and compelling in equal measure. In this...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 19/08/2022This utterly absorbing retelling of The Magic Flute is a triumph for Opera Alegria – and for the Arcola Theatre’s...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...
Reviewer's rating Carmen Grimeborn Festival 2022 Owen Davies 12/08/2022The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance...
Reviewer's rating Die Zauberflöte Salzburger Festspiele 2022 Alessandro Zummo 11/08/2022For the 2022 Summer Festival, the American stage director Lydia Steier has reworked her 2018 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte...