Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Mel Cooper 13/07/2019The director Martin Constantine has managed to create a brilliantly witty, surprisingly moving and totally engaging production of Mozart and...
Reviewer's Rating Anna Bolena Mel Cooper 26/06/2019Anna Bolena is one of the great operas of the Italian romantic era. Historically, it was innovative both musically and...
Reviewer's Rating Das Rheingold Mel Cooper 10/06/2019The new Longborough Opera Festival production of Das Rheingold approximates, within the “given” of its setting and budget, just about...
Reviewer's Rating L’incoronazione di Poppea Mel Cooper 01/08/2018In our era in which politics has become egregiously dysfunctional, and in which so many politicians seem to have lost...
Reviewer's Rating Ariadne auf Naxos Mel Cooper 18/07/2018Ariadne auf Naxos is one of the most poetical, intellectual, and musically nuanced of operas, a sophisticate treat. Written by...
La Traviata Mel Cooper 28/06/2018With their new production of Verdi’s seminal middle period work La Traviata, this summer’s Longborough Opera Festival has created one...
Reviewer's Rating Der Fliegende Holländer Mel Cooper 13/06/2018The team at the Longborough Festival have managed to produce a Flying Dutchman that will itself live in legend, I...
