Reviewer's Rating The Turn of the Screw Owen Davies 09/07/2019“I am the hidden life that stirs when the candle is out” is the line of the libretto that remains...
Reviewer's rating Noye’s Fludde Owen Davies 06/07/2019“An epic feat of outreach” are the words used by Lily Einhorn who produced this marvellous version of Noye’s Fludde...
Reviewer's rating The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro) Shadi Seifouri 30/06/2019Regarded as the first of many successful collaborations between Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, Le Nozze di Figaro is...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi fan tutte Owen Davies 30/06/2019Mozart produced three great operas with librettist Lorenzo da Ponte. Cosi fan Tutte was first performed in Vienna in 1790...
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Mel Cooper 26/06/2019Anna Bolena is one of the great operas of the Italian romantic era. Historically, it was innovative both musically and...
Reviewer's rating Boris Godunov Rivka Jacobson 24/06/2019‘Made in Britain” is written all over this revival production of the Russian opera ‘Boris Godunov’. Fittingly, even the name...
Reviewer's rating Nabucco Rivka Jacobson 21/06/2019Nabucco is Verdi’s third opera but first triumph. It propelled the young composer from desperation to elation. The plot consists...
Reviewer's Rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 21/06/2019Mozart produced The Magic Flute in the last year of his life, 1791. Europe was in turmoil. In England, The...
Reviewer's Rating Cendrillon Tim Hochstrasser 18/06/2019Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s late nineteenth-century version of the Cinderella story, which takes the gist of the familiar fairy story...
Reviewer's Rating The Diary of One Who Disappeared Shadi Seifouri 08/06/2019Burdened by a forbidden muse, Leos Janacek’s 1919 song cycle, The Diary of One Who Disappeared, serves as an allegoric...
