The Importance of Being Earnest Tim Hochstrasser 13/07/2026 627‘We live, I regret to say, in an Age of Surfaces,’ says Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest....
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026 893Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026 561The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
Requiem Alessandro Zummo 08/07/2026 667Mozart’s Requiem is inseparable from the mythology of its own making. Composed in the shadow of the composer’s death in...
Wife to James Whelan Olivia Hurton 06/07/2026 448Plays, it is sometimes argued, are transient things. They emerge from a particular socio-historic moment, coloured by all its prejudices...
Macbeth (opera) Josi Steinfeld 05/07/2026 692Verdi regarded Shakespeare’s Macbeth as “one of the greatest creations of man”, declaring: “If we cannot make something great out...
Eugene Onegin Josi Steinfeld 03/07/2026 429Tchaikovsky’s Pushkin-based opera traces Tatyana’s youthful infatuation with the worldly Onegin, his fatal duel with Lensky, and their devastating reunion...
The Chocolate Soldier Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2026 464Given Shaw’s antipathy towards musical theatre, it is ironic that three of the great musicals of the twentieth century were...
The Barber of Seville Tim Hochstrasser 28/06/2026 573If Don Carlo is a full-bodied Rioja, then Il Barbiere di Siviglia is the crispiest of prosecco, and on the hottest...
Turandot René Weis FRSA 24/06/2026 566A resounding triumph! This brilliant outing of a pared-down concert performance of Turandot by Opera Holland Park (OHP) has the...
