Reviewer's rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Jad Adams 07/09/2025A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of Shakespeare’s best loved plays through it is rarely performed in its entirety. It...
L’Italiana in Algeri Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 05/09/2025There was already a buzz outside the Teatro Rossini before curtain-up. Fifteen minutes before the performance, an old smoking VW...
Emerald Storm Julie Peakman 04/09/2025With an obvious title for an evening of Irish entertainment, it would be expected that perhaps a mixture of Irish...
The Pitchfork Disney Olivia Hurton 04/09/2025When Philip Ridley’s The Pitchfork Disney premiered in 1991, there were discussions about whether a nurse should be on standby...
Becoming Tosca Owen Davies 03/09/2025Prologue Opera’s Becoming Tosca is built on an intriguing idea: by inventing “backstories” for Puccini’s characters, the company hopes to...
Reviewer's Rating It Never Rains Jad Adams 03/09/2025This smart family drama takes as its title the old saw ‘It never rains but it pours’ to introduce us...
La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Soirées Musicales Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro – 2025 Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2025Rossini was just 18 when Venice commissioned his first opera, the one-act comedy La Cambiale di Matrimonio (“The Marriage Contract”)....
Zelmira Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 31/08/2025Rossini’s Zelmira, last composed for Naples in 1822, was once a staple at one of Europe’s great operatic centres, before...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Nye Rhys John Edwards 27/08/2025I’ve always despised pride by association. That borrowed sense of triumph usually expressed by armchair patriots during sporting events. The...
