Reviewer's rating Bluebeard’s Castle Owen Davies 04/09/2022Bartok’s 1918 one-act “expressionist” opera Bluebeard’s Castle is a work that is puzzling and compelling in equal measure. In this...
Reviewer's Rating Patience Tim Hochstrasser 28/08/2022Charles Court Opera has in a short space of time become the acknowledged master of G&S in small spaces. So...
Reviewer's rating Medea Ben Reiss 26/08/2022There is a moment in the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Medea when Adura Onashile – playing the titular...
Reviewer's rating An Untitled Love Ben Reiss 24/08/2022The subject of choreographer Kyle Abraham’s new work is clear from the title. Although the dance celebrates the extraordinariness and...
Reviewer's rating The Osmonds Richard McKee 24/08/2022Like C.S. Lewis in a different context, I was “surprised by joy”. Back in the 1970s I was clinging on...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 19/08/2022This utterly absorbing retelling of The Magic Flute is a triumph for Opera Alegria – and for the Arcola Theatre’s...
Reviewer's rating Aida Alessandro Zummo 17/08/2022Shirin Neshat directed Aida at Salzburg Festival five years ago and it was reviewed here. It was her first experience...
Reviewer's rating Footloose Richard McKee 17/08/2022This is a curate’s egg of a show. It’s good in parts, indeed very good. But some of it is...
Reviewer's rating Coppélia Ben Reiss 15/08/2022This modern-day reworking of Léo Delibes’ Coppélia is an eerie, propulsive, visually arresting but often infuriating ballet. While the music...
Reviewer's rating Káťa Kabanová Salzburg Festival 2022 Alessandro Zummo 14/08/2022“So quiet, so beautiful around here… and I must die”, these are the last words that Káťa pronounces before throwing...
