Reviewer’s Rating Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 Sam Dodgshon 19/08/2019On the night I arrive at Lulu Popplewell: The Humble Bumhole she greets the audience at the door with her...
Parsifal Bayreuth 2019 Tony Cooper 18/08/2019Specifically written for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the...
After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP!! Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 Sam Dodgshon 18/08/2019John-Luke Roberts is a master, and in After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP...
Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar Edinburgh Fringe Festival Agnes Carrington-Windo 16/08/2019Watching Joshua Ladgrove feels like mining the gold seam of character comedy. Known for portraying Neal Portenza, who recently announced...
Reviewer's rating Médée Salzburg Festival 2019 Alessandro Zummo 15/08/2019Cutting edge and provocative, this year’s new production of Cherubini’s Médée performed at Salzburg Festspiele is notable for the originality...
Reviewer's rating Lohengrin Bayreuth Festival 2019 Tony Cooper 15/08/2019This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon – born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first...
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...
