24 (Day): The measure of my dreams Emma Burnell 05/08/2023I was really excited by the idea of this play. I grew up close to the area it’s set in....
Reviewer's rating Itch Owen Davies 04/08/2023Opera Holland Park (OHP) has commissioned Jonathan Dove, working with his regular librettist Alasdair Middleton, to write an opera based...
Reviewer's Rating Opera in Song – Vissi d’Arte Tim Hochstrasser 03/08/2023At the centre of Opera Holland Park’s season each year now is a charming and absorbing three-concert interlude that explores...
Reviewer's Rating No For An Answer Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2023‘There are Bernsteins and Blitzsteins, And flop Steins and hit Steins’, sings Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’. Well, we all know...
Skin Jad Adams 02/08/2023Skin opens with two sisters chatting on stage about Sadie’s cancer, and even laughing about it. Sadie, in her early...
Reviewer's rating The Empress Mel Cooper 01/08/2023I am happy to say that the new production of The Empress by Tanika Gupta at the RSC is excellent....
Reviewer's rating La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) Owen Davies 01/08/2023This jewel of an opera has many wonderful moments to savour though it sometimes feels as if one is waiting...
La Bohème Adi Ginat 31/07/2023Puccini’s La Bohème is a classic, even those who are not well versed in Opera, including myself, know of its...
Orlando Owen Davies 30/07/2023First performed in London in 1733, Orlando is an opera seria based on part of Ariosto’s ballad, Orlando Furioso. Handel...
Reviewer's rating The Fairy Queen Mel Cooper 30/07/2023For their final production of the season, the one in which they give a platform for up-and-coming young talent, Longborough...
