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...
Reviewer's Rating Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District Tim Hochstrasser 16/04/2018If ever one doubts the destructive power of a bad review, then Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk provides the sharpest reminder....
