Reviewer's Rating BBC Proms: The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 21/08/2016ithout a doubt, the BBC Prom performance on 19 August 2016 of janacek’s extraordinary opera The Makropulos Affair was a...
Reviewer's Rating Parsifal Tony Cooper 20/08/2016pecifically written for the Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage)...
Reviewer's Rating Der Fliegende Holländer Tony Cooper 20/08/2016agner’s first mature opera written in 1841, Der fliegende Holländer is directed with great flair and imagination by the German...
Reviewer's Rating Always Orange / Fall of the Kingdom, Rise of the Foot Soldier Mel Cooper 20/08/2016he Making Mischief Festival is, for the RSC, supposed to be about responding to “the challenge with daring explorations of...
Reviewer's Rating Echoes of Eternity Vikki Jane Vile 19/08/2016ragic love stories are a well trodden path in dance, they are adored by audiences for their abilities to make...
Reviewer's Rating Peter Pan In Scarlet Mel Cooper 19/08/2016eter Pan in Scarlet is the official sequel to J M Barrie’s Peter Pan. Set in the late 1920s, that...
Reviewer's Rating That Which Isn’t Austin Fimmano 17/08/2016n Brooklyn, Matthew Freeman’s new play That Which Isn’t sets itself up to delve into the intricacies of human relationships....
Reviewer's Rating Marilyn and Sinatra Richard McKee 17/08/2016our reviewer is old enough to remember when Frank Sinatra was having Top Ten hits and Marilyn Monroe was making...
Reviewer's Rating Cold Blood Marianna Papaki 17/08/2016ow tempting can a play about death be to watch, especially in the height of summer in Athens? If it’s...
Reviewer's Rating Thunderstorm Owen Davies 16/08/2016he Shanghai Opera and Ballet Companies are at the Coliseum in London for a limited season. The opera that is...
