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 Six Harry Tennison 20/07/2018The six wives of Henry VIII have formed a girl band, driven by the injustices served by their royal husbands....
Reviewer's Rating Birdsong Mel Cooper 18/07/2018I have a lot of good to say about the acclaimed touring production of Birdsong, but also a major quibble....
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...
Reviewer's Rating Miss Littlewood Mel Cooper 16/07/2018One of the many exciting and interesting things about this new musical, commissioned by the RSC, is how cleverly it...
Reviewer's Rating Misanthrope Chloe Darnaud 29/06/2018David Furlong’s adaptation of Misanthrope takes place at the heart of a modern TV newsroom, turning Molière’s critique of 17th...
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 Hairspray Mel Cooper 22/06/2018The 2014 production of Hairspray directed by Paul Kerryson is touring the country again. Extremely polished, remarkable for its emotional...
Reviewer's Rating Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain Mel Cooper 13/06/2018Simon Reade’s clever homage to Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Curtain, plays like a well made West End...
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...