Reviewer's Rating Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2018This opera matinee has become not just a focal point for the Jette Parker Young Artists themselves at the end...
Reviewer's Rating Six Harry Tennison 20/07/2018The six wives of Henry VIII have formed a girl band, driven by the injustices served by their royal husbands....
Dining al Desko Sophie Nevrkla 19/07/2018As I write this review in Brexit Britain, I have one ear on Prime Minister’s Questions. While May and Corbyn...
Reviewer's Rating Fire in Dreamland Austin Fimmano 19/07/2018A woman is standing on a boardwalk, weeping – not the tears of a damsel in distress, but the tears...
Reviewer's Rating Two for the Seesaw Zabrina Lo 18/07/2018Director of Two for the Seesaw Gary Condes summarises his play with three words: love, life and truth. Indeed, the...
Reviewer's Rating Birdsong Mel Cooper 18/07/2018I have a lot of good to say about the acclaimed touring production of Birdsong, but also a major quibble....
Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Mel Cooper 18/07/2018Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...
Reviewer's Rating Get the Boat Ann Pryor 16/07/2018Ireland recently made global headlines in May with its Yes vote on a referendum to remove the eighth amendment of...
Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s...
Reviewer's Rating The Lehman Trilogy Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Three brothers, in three acts, and spread over three generations: this is the pattern for Ben Power’s adaptation of Stefano...
