Reviewer's rating Roberto Devereux Tim Hochstrasser 05/11/2021 1652With ‘Six’ and ‘The Mirror and the Light’ running in the West End it is clear that our appetite the...
Reviewer's rating Madam Butterfly Owen Davies 31/10/2021 1226Madam Butterfly is one of the most performed operas today and yet one of the most difficult to stage in...
Reviewer's rating La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 29/10/2021 1518In this stupendous revival of Richard Eyre’s 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, the 27 years...
100 Satyagraha Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2021 1567Philip Glass’s music can be a marvellous tonic. English National Opera 2007 production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha was first staged...
Reviewer's rating A Splinter of Ice Emma Burnell 17/10/2021 1483It is 1987 and the Soviet Union is not long for this world. Neither – it turns out – were...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021 1500Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
Reviewer's rating Piazzolla Project Tim Hochstrasser 17/09/2021 1476This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2021 1651An air of some excitement and anticipation hangs in the packed Royal Opera House’s auditorium. This is the first performance...
Reviewer's rating Orfeo and Zanetto Double Bill Owen Davies 08/09/2021 1427Barefoot Opera brought an unusual double bill to Grimeborn at the Arcola. They paired a shortened version of Gluck’s Orfeo...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Owen Davies 01/09/2021 2200As part of the splendid Grimeborn festival put on every summer by the Arcola, Marcio da Silva’s Ensemble Orquestra has...
