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....
Reviewers Rating Macbeth Rivka Jacobson 05/04/2018Last night’s performance of Verdi’s Macbeth was filmed and screened for the benefit of worldwide audience unable to see the...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Owen Davies 25/03/2018Every opera company needs a top quality production of Traviata that it can roll out to bring in the crowds...
Reviewer's Rating Don Carlo Shmuel Ben-Tovim 18/03/2018This was a classic opera production, a remake of original direction and design made for several Spanish opera companies. The...
Reviewer's Rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mel Cooper 10/03/2018I am something of a fan of Benjamin Britten’s opera of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I like the music, the...
Reviewer's Rating From the House of the Dead Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2018‘In every creature, a spark of God’ wrote the composer on the title page of this, his last opera, now...
