Saul Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2025 2148As a veteran browser of second-hand bookshops, I grew used to seeing piles of faded old Novello vocal scores of...
Simon Boccanegra Josi Steinfeld 09/06/2025 2547This Simon Boccanegra is a triumph: musically rich, theatrically bold, and imaginatively staged. With a top-tier cast, innovative design, and...
Itch Olivia Hurton 07/06/2025 1019Itch at Opera Holland Park is a rare thing: a modern opera which attempts to make the art form accessible...
Fiddler on the Roof Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2025 2098The greatest musicals, like the greatest operas, contain worlds within them that can be tapped and taken in many different...
CompañÃa Mercedes Ruiz Romancero del Baile Flamenco Hafiza Butt 05/06/2025 1357The revelation of love is that nothing else matters—not even the capitulation of the other. To love greatly is, of...
Manon Olivia Hurton 31/05/2025 1718The Opéra Bastille is a late postmodern strongbox for storytelling. Behind its brutalist façade of glass and exposed concrete lies...
The Deep Blue Sea Olivia Hurton 22/05/2025 2224Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea would make rich material for the column of an agony aunt as much as...
The Rape of Lucrece Olivia Hurton 17/05/2025 765If Shakespeare were alive in 2025, would he be a songwriter? The Rape of Lucrece at Wilton’s Music Hall certainly...
House of Games Tim Hochstrasser 13/05/2025 956With Dealer’s Choice playing at the Donmar, and this production opening at Hampstead, the risks and temptations of gambling are...
Jephtha – An Oratorio in Three Acts Josi Steinfeld 11/05/2025 948For his final oratorio, Handel chose the Old Testament story of Jephtha, the Israelite leader who vows to sacrifice the...
