Reviewer's rating Lucrezia Borgia Owen Davies 07/03/2023Despite all the noise and nonsense seeping out of the Arts Council about opera funding, it is great to be...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Man Walking Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023Jake Heggie’s opera ‘Dead Man Walking’ is a bold contemporary choice for a student conservatory to make, but one that...
Reviewer's Rating Akedah Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023‘Akedah’, which translates as ‘binding’ is the first full-length play by a writer who has now gone on to later...
Reviewer's Rating The Egyptians Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition,...
Reviewer rating Il Viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 06/03/2023Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825,...
Reviewer rating Truth’s a Dog that Must to Kennel Owen Davies 04/03/2023This stunning short piece by Tim Crouch is reflection on the nature of theatre and the shared values that bring...
Reviewer rating Andrea Chénier, Josi Steinfeld 03/03/2023Umberto Giordano used the true story of the poet Andrea Chénier, guillotined in 1794 aged 32, three days before the...
Reviewer's Rating Oklahoma! Tim Hochstrasser 03/03/2023This production first saw the light of day at Bard College in 2015 and was most recently reworked at the...
Reviewer's Rating Coppélia Lucy Ashe 03/03/2023The ballet Coppélia has a remarkable capacity for re-interpretation. What better foundation for a story about ambition and power than...
Reviewer's rating Alcina Josi Steinfeld 28/02/2023Monte Carlo Opera has a new, and for the first time, female artistic director, the Queen of Coloratura, Cecilia Bartoli. With...
