The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey Ben Reiss 11/08/2026The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey opens as a children’s fairytale, recited with a singsong rhythm and gentle, hypnotic rhymes. Becky...
Aida Alina Bottez 08/08/2026Aida, Arena di Verona: A dazzling crystal vision Verdi’s Aida was commissioned for Egypt in connection with the opening of...
Space Dogs Richard Voyce 06/08/2026Space Dogs isn’t so much a musical as a TED Talk with music detailing the post-World War II race to...
Cosi Fan Tutte Owen Davies 06/08/2026Cosi fan Tutte is an opera full of humour and wonderful music – but it is notoriously difficult nowadays to...
Die Fledermaus Soyoon Koo 04/08/2026Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus has never pretended to be a tightly engineered farce. Champagne is the engine. Liam Steel’s...
Twelfth Night on Kew Soyoon Koo 03/08/2026Twelfth Night has always occupied an uneasy place in Shakespeare’s performance history, remembered widely as a festive comedy, yet its...
Tao of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 01/08/2026Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott have many fine collaborations behind them, especially in iconic operatic productions, but this quirky, intermittently...
Reviewers Rating Carrie the Musical Julie Peakman 01/08/2026This musical has a chequered history. Based on a Stephen King’s 1974 debut novel, it was turned into a play...
Britten – 50th anniversary Prom with Guy Johnston Tim Hochstrasser 30/07/2026Incredibly it is now 50 years since the death of Benjamin Britten. His music has never really experienced the dip...
The Karate Kid Musical Rhys John Edwards 29/07/2026 Wales Millennium Centre No one would blame you for being a little sceptical about a Karate Kid musical. On...
