Reviewer's Rating Cilla, The Musical Mel Cooper 16/02/2018At one level this is just another well-put-together biographical show in the tried and true genre of musicals based on...
Reviewer's Rating Iolanthe Richard Voyce 15/02/2018Forget Hamilton. There’s a new ‘hot ticket’ in town, and it is, of all things, Iolanthe at the ENO! Appearing...
Reviewer's Rating La Forza del Destino Owen Davies 15/02/2018This Verdi blockbuster, chosen by Welsh National Opera as part of their ‘Rabble Rousers’ season, deals with the malevolent effect...
Reviewer's Rating Three Sisters Leslie Gordon 15/02/2018Sarah Ruhl, the funny, sensitive somewhat absurdist playwright of our time, interpreting Anton Chekhov, the grandfather of it all– what...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/02/2018This was an absolutely amazing, sophisticated, breathtaking opera production, definitely one of the best in recent memory at the Tel...
Reviewer's Rating Time Stands Still Nicole Cardoni 13/02/2018“I live off the suffering of strangers,” reflects Sarah Goodwin, a wartime photographer and the lead character in Donald Margulies’...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Owen Davies 13/02/2018Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca was first performed in Rome in 1900. It is a tale of sedition, torture, rape, and betrayal...
Reviewer's Rating Pluto Katerina Yannouli 12/02/2018The overwhelming sentiment when I left the Barbican after seeing ‘Pluto’ was: “This was amazing but I am exhausted!”. I...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Grace Creaton-Barber 12/02/2018If you have any preconceptions of Carmen or, in fact, the entire discipline of opera you shall find them completely...
Reviewer's Rating Written on Skin Katherine Syer 12/02/2018Disclaimer: the highly successful premiere production of George Benjamin’s opera Written on Skin (2012) is etched firmly in my memory....
