Reviewer's rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Tim Hochstrasser 08/06/2019This production represents Opera Holland Park at its best in making a fully persuasive case for an opera that often...
reviewer's rating Manon Lescaut Shadi Seifouri 06/06/2019Opera Holland Park, famed for its nuanced take on opera outdoors, opened its summer season with Puccini’s pivotal 1893 opera,...
Reviewer's Rating Born to Mince Nicholas Potter 04/06/2019This year the empress of smut Julian Clary has returned to strut onstage with his aptly named comedy tour Born...
reviewer's rating Tosca Rivka Jacobson 03/06/2019Vittorio Grigolo’s performance of ‘E Lucevan le Stelle’ as Cavaradossi moved me to tears as never before in this production...
Reviewer's Rating The Starry Messenger Agnes Carrington-Windo 30/05/2019Anyone not familiar with Kenneth Lonergan might recognise Manchester by the Sea, for which he won Best Original Screenplay at...
Rutherford and Son Emma Burnell 29/05/2019Rutherford and Sons is a powerful deconstruction of how the intersection of class and patriarchy enabled weak men’s dominion over...
4 & 9 Hafiza Butt 29/05/2019Paintings of bodies may capture the lushness, frailty and decay of flesh. But if vitality means to be in motion...
Reviewer's Rating Amelie the Musical Phil Setren 29/05/2019Based on the popular Oscar nominated Film, Amelie is the musical telling of a young French woman who creates intricate...
Reviewer's Rating Andrea Chénier Tim Hochstrasser 28/05/2019When this opera had its first performance at La Scala in 1896 the ‘verismo’ style of operatic writing was at...
reviewer's rating Phaedra Rivka Jacobson 28/05/2019This concert-opera (konzertoper) piece must be heard a number of times before one can grasp some of the music’s intricate...
