Reviewer's rating The Pirates of Penzance Tim Hochstrasser 05/08/2021This is altogether a fine era for ‘G&S’. The tired and fusty productions of the D’Oyly Carte era are a...
Reviewer's rating John and Jen Phil Setren 05/08/2021John and Jen is an interesting two-character musical. Well performed, with detailed orchestrations of simple songs, a teenage brother and...
Reviewer's rating Die Walküre Tim Hochstrasser 05/08/2021Back in 2019 Grimeborn began its exploration of Wagner’s Ring cycle with the inspired idea of reviving the reduced-scale version...
Reviewer's rating My Night with Reg Tim Hochstrasser 02/08/2021This tragicomedy from 1994 is set in the early 1980s as the impact of HIV/AIDS becomes felt in the London gay...
Reviewer's rating L’amico Fritz Tim Hochstrasser 31/07/2021We are very familiar with Mascagni’s first opera ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’, from whose successful shadow he strove in vain to escape...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Mel Cooper 31/07/2021The Longborough Opera Festival ends its season every year with a show that highlights young professionals just starting their careers in...
Reviewer's Rating Hymn Grace Creaton-Barber 30/07/2021This show effervesces with life: heart-warming, hilarious yet painfully realistic throughout… Hymn is a recreation of reality. Hymn follows the...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Tim Hochstrasser 30/07/2021Rather like ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, this opera is fairly indestructible in any production. As environmental awareness has grown so...
Reviewer's rating The Two Character Play Rivka Jacobson 30/07/2021This is an intriguing and brave revival of Tennessee Williams’s The Two Character Play. It is brave because like all...
Reviewer's rating Violetta and Tatyana Shadi Seifouri 29/07/2021Making a formidable return to music-making, Opera Holland Park’s latest recital series was a tonic for concert-goers. “Opera in Song”,...
