Reviewer's rating Rusalka Josi Steinfeld 26/05/2023Olomouc has just over 100,000 inhabitants with a popular opera culture. The mainly young audience was well-dressed. The comfortable theatre...
Reviewer's rating Jakobin Josi Steinfeld 26/05/2023Liberec is a small town of 100,00 inhabitants, with a beautiful opera house in an enchanting square, enthusiastically attended by...
Reviewer's rating Otello Josi Steinfeld 24/05/2023Brno has a rich musical culture, with many theatres. Going to the opera is an occasion, and everyone dresses up....
Reviewer's Rating Brokeback Mountain Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2023Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Such is...
Reviewer's rating Bartered Bride PRODANÁ NEVÊSTA Josi Steinfeld 19/05/2023Smetana is known as the ‘father of Czech opera’; he spent five years in Sweden, where, stung by the comment...
Reviewer's rating Anna Karenina Ben Reiss 19/05/2023Writer Lesley Hart and director Polina Kalinina bring plenty of zest and visual panache to this ambitious production of Russian...
Reviewer's rating My Marquee Barb Jungr and her Trio Richard McKee 19/05/2023It’s an old chestnut that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there, man. I can remember the sounds...
Bleak Expectations Emma Burnell 19/05/2023Restaging something that has been much beloved in another format can be a double-edged sword. How do you maintain the...
Reviewer's rating Armida Josi Steinfeld 18/05/2023People may not have heard of Dvořak’s rarely performed Armida. Dvořak was at the height of his powers when composing...
Reviewer's rating Agrippina Owen Davies 18/05/2023Handel wrote a lot of operas and some are better than others. Agrippina was written for the Venice Carnival of...
