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 Don Pasquale Owen Davies 23/06/2019Devotees of Donizetti should look away now… but everyone who loves comic opera should pay close attention. With this free...
Reviewer's Rating Don Pasquale Mel Cooper 23/06/2019The Welsh National Opera have again produced a “reduced” version of an opera to tour small scale and mid-sized venues...
Reviewer's Rating Cendrillon Tim Hochstrasser 18/06/2019Cendrillon is Jules Massenet’s late nineteenth-century version of the Cinderella story, which takes the gist of the familiar fairy story...
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 Napoli, Brooklyn Mel Cooper 06/06/2019I liked Napoli, Brooklyn. I found it interesting, though in the end it just didn’t quite add up for me....
Reviewer's Rating The Provoked Wife Mel Cooper 06/06/2019The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh is given a production that it truly deserves at the RSC, pivoting cleverly between...
Reviewer's Rating The Importance of Being Earnest Mel Cooper 29/05/2019The new production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest at the Watermill Theatre near Newbury is another success...
Reviewer's Rating Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs) Mel Cooper 16/05/2019Macheath was conceived as a loveable rogue, a highwayman type, in the original John Gay send-up of opera, politics, society...
Reviewer's Rating Club Tropicana the Musical Mel Cooper 14/05/2019I try to accept “the given” of anything I see. But I am afraid that this time I simply cannot...
