Reviewer's rating Count Ory Grimeborn 2019 Owen Davies 15/08/2019Count Ory is a comic opera by Rossini that rarely gets performed today. Written for performance in Paris in 1828,...
Reviewer's rating Silk Moth Grimeborn 2019 Owen Davies 15/08/2019This strange trilogy is made up of two short pieces – The Heart’s Ear and Bel Canto – and a...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2019This famous opera by Handel, which premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 16 April 1735, has always been...
Reviewer's Rating Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Bayreuther Festspiele Tony Cooper 13/08/2019Flamboyant and a wonderfully quirky director Barrie Kosky’s innovative production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first seen at Bayreuth...
Reviewer's rating Die Fledermaus Grimeborn 2019 Owen Davies 11/08/2019This version of the old Viennese operetta is subtitled The Revenge of the Bat-man. It is charmingly updated to the...
Reviewer's Rating Lucy Porter: Be Prepared Sam Dodgshon 10/08/2019At a time where cynicism is king, I am pleased to report that Lucy Porter is actually genuinely nice. In...
Reviewer's rating The Merchant of Venice (Kupiec wenecki) Gdansk Shakespeare Festival Rivka Jacobson 08/08/2019This play makes uncomfortable viewing for many Jews and for many non-Jewish people concerned about the resurgence of anti-Semitism among...
Reviewer's rating La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) Edinburgh International Festival Ben Reiss 08/08/2019In 2012 in Liège, Ihsane Jarfi was brutally and senselessly murdered. La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I) positions itself as...
Reviewer's Rating Cyrano de Bergerac Le Festival d’Avignon Marie Communal 07/08/2019In Paris in 1640, the brilliant poet and swordsman Cyrano de Bergerac finds himself in love of his beautiful cousin...
Reviewer's Rating Forgetting Heledd Owen Davies 07/08/2019Forgetting Heledd is a very powerful piece of theatre, telling the story of a family coping with early onset dementia...
