Reviewer's rating The Rape of Lucretia Owen Davies 15/11/2022 1310This version of The Rape of Lucretia, co-produced by The Royal Opera and Britten Pears Arts provides a compelling evening...
Reviewer's rating Les Contes d’Hoffmann Yael Shuv 10/11/2022 2090Jacques 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 08/11/2022 1537This 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 16/10/2022 1231Paris. 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 14/10/2022 2756WNO 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 04/09/2022 1291Bartok’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 19/08/2022 1425This 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 17/08/2022 4574Shirin 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 4619“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 12/08/2022 1367The Baseless Fabric company exists to bring theatre and opera to public spaces and to give new audiences the chance...
