La Scala Di Seta (The Silken Ladder) Josi Steinfeld 23/08/2026 631Rossini was 20 when La scala di seta premiered in 1812 — a remarkable year in which he composed five...
The Singer Ziyu Zhang 14/08/2026 374The Singer opens up a thrilling new perspective on what a singer is, and on how a song can be...
Dido and Aeneas Owen Davies 13/08/2026 542Dido and Aeneas is Purcell’s only opera. Others, like King Arthur and The Fairy-Queen, though musically superb, are appropriately labelled...
Aida Alina Bottez 08/08/2026 574Aida, Arena di Verona: A dazzling crystal vision Verdi’s Aida was commissioned for Egypt in connection with the opening of...
Twelfth Night on Kew Soyoon Koo 03/08/2026 561Twelfth Night has always occupied an uneasy place in Shakespeare’s performance history, remembered widely as a festive comedy, yet its...
Flop! Richard Voyce 22/07/2026 479Flop! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals does exactly what it says on the tin. What the title doesn’t...
Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2026 699Sitting between Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, this opera partakes of both – a glamorous Viennese salon setting for...
Swan Lake Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2026 613The marvel of Swan Lake is its plasticity and flexibility in the hands of so many generations of performers, directors...
The Smile of Her Rivka Jacobson 17/07/2026 620With that deceptively simple observation, Christine Lahti opens one of the most compelling evenings of theatre currently on the London...
Songs of the Bulbul Hafiza Butt 13/07/2026 544Aakash Odedra’s ‘Songs of the Bulbul’ is a truly remarkable show; a comprehensive exploration of that most ephemeral of things:...
