Reviewer's rating HEX Evelien van den Hondel (14) 15/12/2022When the protagonist of our story, an outcast fairy called ‘Fairy’, meets an odd man in the forest one day,...
Reviewer's rating Othello Emily Louizou 12/12/2022I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Tim Hochstrasser 21/11/2022On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’...
HERE Julie Peakman 16/11/2022With a nod to the ‘kitchen-sink dramas’ of the 1960s, Here is set in a dreary kitchen somewhere in the...
Reviewer's rating Dinner with Groucho Mel Cooper 15/11/2022Dinner with Groucho is a kind of one-act fantasia on the historic fact that T S Eliot and Groucho Marx...
Reviewer's rating From Here To Eternity Richard Voyce 11/11/2022There’s really only one question that needs to be asked about From Here To Eternity which has just opened at...
A Dead Body in Taos Julie Peakman 28/10/2022A body has been found in the desert outside Taos, New Mexico. It is identified, cremated and the ashes scattered. ...
Reviewer's rating La Bohéme Rivka Jacobson 16/10/2022Paris. An attic with no heating on Christmas eve, with four artists- Rodolfo, a poet, Marcello, a painter, Schaunard, a musician and...
