Edinburgh’s Only Bilge Pump Sales Seminar Edinburgh Fringe Festival Agnes Carrington-Windo 16/08/2019 3571Watching 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 15/08/2019 6537Cutting 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 15/08/2019 5266This 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 15/08/2019 2139Count 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 15/08/2019 2101This 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 14/08/2019 6164This 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 13/08/2019 5006Flamboyant 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 11/08/2019 1473This 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 10/08/2019 3246At 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 08/08/2019 2940This play makes uncomfortable viewing for many Jews and for many non-Jewish people concerned about the resurgence of anti-Semitism among...
