Reviewer's rating Don Carlo Josi Steinfeld 04/07/2023Verdi’s Don Carlo is the longest and arguably the greatest Verdi opera, based on Schiller’s play set in Phillip II’s...
Reviewer's rating Shakespeare in Musical Form The Met Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-Séguin Josi Steinfeld 02/07/2023It has been 20 years since the Met Orchestra have appeared in UK. This performance to a packed Barbican Hall...
Reviewer's rating The Return of Benjamin Lay Owen Davies 20/06/2023This a remarkable piece of storytelling from the team at the Finborough. Wallace and Rediker have an important story to...
Reviewer's Rating Assassins Tim Hochstrasser 12/06/2023Fresh from reviewing ‘Gypsy, to which Sondheim contributed the lyrics, and then coming to ‘Assassins’, it is astonishing to see...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto René Weis FRSA 06/06/2023The new production of Rigoletto, the opening opera of the 2023 Opera Holland Park season, is a triumph. Directed by...
Reviewer's rating Götterdämmerung Mel Cooper 05/06/2023This production of Götterdämmerung is in every aspect excellent, cogent and intelligently articulated. Despite somewhat more limited resources than major...
Gypsy Tim Hochstrasser 04/06/2023‘Gypsy’ stands to musicals as ‘Figaro’ does to opera: an indisputable masterpiece of the genre that is simultaneously indestructible yet...
Reviewer's rating Surfing the Holyland Paul Richards 03/06/2023Like a surfer delivering a tricky roundhouse cutback, US writer and actor Erin Hunter has delivered something rare, special and...
Reviewer's rating My Marquee Barb Jungr and her Trio Richard McKee 19/05/2023It’s an old chestnut that if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there, man. I can remember the sounds...
Reviewer's rating Cymbeline Mel Cooper 11/05/2023Gregory Doran has created a truly brilliant evening of theatre in his new production of Shakespeare’s romantic masterpiece, Cymbeline. There...
