Mozart Requiem Lennon Hu 02/11/2025The show began with Camille Pépin’s Inlandsis. This was a magical piece, in the way that looking at a mountain...
La Bohème Ziyu Zhang 25/10/2025Transposed to Paris’s Jazz Age of the 1920s, André Barbe and Renaud Doucet’s production of La Bohème revives Puccini’s theatrical...
Candide Owen Davies 24/10/2025I first saw this marvellous Welsh National Opera production of Bernstein’s gloriously messy masterpiece in Cardiff in 2023, and I...
The Maids Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2025Kip Williams’ new version of Jean Genet’s The Maids at the Donmar Warehouse propels Genet’s mid-century “hall of mirrors” into...
La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025Claus Guth’s once-controversial, space-set Bohème returns to Paris to a packed, euphoric house. What felt scandalous in 2017 now reads...
Lee Tim Hochstrasser 06/10/2025I tend to view plays about creativity or the artistic process with a degree of trepidation. Either they have something...
ROHTKO Emma Nihill 03/10/2025Spanning an epic four hours, director Łukasz Twarkowski and writer Anka Herbut have produced a piece so sublime and original...
The Elixir of Love René Weis FRSA 30/09/2025English Touring Opera’s (ETO) English language production of Donizetti’s sparkling romcom The Elixir of Love was a joy to watch....
Titus Andronicus Rivka Jacobson 28/09/2025The publicity image of Simon Russell Beale drenched in blood suggested a horror fest — the kind of performance that...
MATEO – Opera Tango Josi Steinfeld 21/09/2025In the atmospheric open-air amphitheatre of Monaco’s 14th-century Fort Antoine, Martín Palmieri’s Mateo emerged as a striking fusion of opera...
