Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny Marc Berman 17/02/2026Which crime deserves the ultimate punishment – cold blooded murder or failing to pay the bar tab? For the citizens...
Peter Grimes Owen Davies 16/02/2026It is hard to believe that Opera North has had this production of Britten’s Peter Grimes sitting in its warehouse...
Shadowlands René Weis FRSA 15/02/2026In this welcome revival of William Nicholson’s now classic play, a superb script and brilliant acting deliver a terrific evening...
Dance of Death Rivka Jacobson 07/02/2026Richard Eyre’s production of Dance of Death at the Orange Tree Theatre refuses consolation, revealing how August Strindberg engineers’ endurance,...
Monstering The Rocketman Richard Voyce 07/02/2026There’s a common phrase that goes something along the lines of ‘if you can remember the 1960’s, you weren’t there’....
★ ★ ★ ★ Chiten Theatre presents The Gambler Soyoon Koo 06/02/2026The Coronet Theatre’s latest guests, Kyoto’s Chiten Theatre, have a take on Dostoevsky’s The Gambler that arrives like a hand...
Mozart’s Requiem: Listening Back to Da Ponte’s Lost World Rivka Jacobson 31/01/2026During the Barbican performance of Mozart’s Requiem, there was a moment — brief and unanticipated — when the music unsettled...
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 29/01/2026When Tchaikovsky set himself the task of adapting Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin into an opera, he had clear ideas...
Die Walküre Josi Steinfeld 29/01/2026In 2025, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Opera and Ballet each launched new Ring cycles with Das Rheingold....
Cosi fan Tutte Tim Hochstrasser 27/01/2026Of all three collaborations between Mozart and Da Ponte this opera is perhaps the most tricky to bring off successfully...
