4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Donizetti And Friends Tim Hochstrasser 11/09/2023 Opera Rara does sterling work in recovering lost or out-of-the-way repertory from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and then producing exce...
3.0★ ★ ★ Strategic Love Play Emma Burnell 10/09/2023 A man (Archie Blackhouse) and a woman (Letty Thomas) meet for a first date. There's been previous interaction, and it's 2023, so they clearly met on t...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Green Opera @ Grimeborn Tim Hochstrasser 08/09/2023 After last year's fine performance of 'Bluebeard's Castle', Green Opera return with three separate operatic offerings. Firstly, '555: Verlaine en pris...
3.0★ ★ ★ Charlie’s Girls Adi Ginat 06/09/2023 As an homage to Charles Miller, a British composer with over 25 years of compositions the Union theatre celebrates his works with a selection of songs...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Aureliano in Palmira Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 The public realised that 21-year-old Rossini was something special in 1813 after the success of Signor Bruschino and Italiana in Algeri. But Aureliano...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Eduardo E Cristina Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini had under a month to compose Eduardo. Eduardo was a ‘centone’(patchwork) opera, as 19/26 numbers were ‘borrowed’ from earlier operas -in part...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Adelaide of Burgundy Adelaide di Borgogna Josi Steinfeld 02/09/2023 Rossini’s 23rd opera, composed under frantic time restraints, for the Carnival season in 1817, followed several 1817 triumphs – Cenerentola, La Gazza ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Cephale and Procris Owen Davies 02/09/2023 Marcio da Silva's Ensemble Orquesta (OE) returns to Grimeborn with another baroque gem. De la Guerre was a harpsichord virtuoso as a young girl and wa...
The Journey to Reims Il viaggio a Reims Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2023 Il Viaggio a Reims, Rossini’s last Italian opera (writing in French thereafter), composed for 14 solo voices, premiered in 1825, for Charles X’s coron...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Midsummer Mechanicals Tobi Philips (8) 30/08/2023 A trip to Shakespeare’s Globe theatre is an exciting experience. I really love the outdoor theatre, but this production of Midsummer Mechanicals was ...
