Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Tim Hochstrasser 21/11/2022On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’...
Reviewer's rating The Rape of Lucretia Owen Davies 15/11/2022This 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 10/11/2022Jacques 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 08/11/2022This 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 16/10/2022Paris. 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 14/10/2022WNO 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 04/09/2022Bartok’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 19/08/2022This 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 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
