Tristan Owen Davies 21/06/2026Tucked away in the Cotswolds is Longborough Festival Opera (LFO) – but please don’t think of it as a backwater....
Inexperience Ziyu Zhang 21/06/2026What happens when desire is preserved, but intimacy is postponed? Scottish playwright Douglas Maxwell explores this intriguing question in the...
Das Rheingold Owen Davies 18/06/2026This splendid production of Das Rheingold marks the beginning of Grange Park Opera’s new cycle of Wagner’s Ring of the...
A Fine Idea Owen Davies 18/06/2026This fiercely political play brims with anger and indignation. It has an important story to tell about how international aid,...
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Josi Steinfeld 16/06/2026The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland Garsington reunites the creative team behind its highly successful 2022 L’Orfeo for Il...
Franco Fagioli & the Orchestra of the Royal Opera Versailles Tim Hochstrasser 15/06/2026I was fortunate to be able to hear these forces perform in Handel’s Ariodante last year with Franco Fagioli in...
The Long Drop Ziyu Zhang 14/06/2026Inside the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow returns to its 1950s past in darkness and shadow, while outside the present-day city remains...
A Life in Four Seasons Tim Hochstrasser 13/06/2026One of the marvels of dance, of whatever kind, is its aesthetic suppleness. It can tell stories, or embody symbolism...
West Side Story Yael Shuv 21/06/2026Beit Lessin Theatre’s new production of West Side Story could – and should – have been truly memorable. The set...
Nabucco Yael Shuv 16/06/2026Nabucco, Giuseppe Verdi’s 1842 “Zionist opera,” was his first major success. At the time, it was embraced by Italian audiences,...
La Traviata Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur Josi Steinfeld 02/06/2026La Traviata is one of the world’s most popular operas. Violetta, a courtesan, falls in love with her admirer Alfredo....
Werther Miho Uchida 01/06/2026Massenet’s Werther tells the tale of an unrealised love between a young couple, Werther and Charlotte. The opera opens with...
Dough Ben Reiss 11/06/20262026 marks the inaugural Jewish Culture Month, a nationwide celebration of almost 1000 years of British-Jewish history. Established by the...
Giulio Cesare Soyoon Koo 10/06/2026Arriving at the Grange estate for Giulio Cesare, one feels that the setting is a sprawling, verdant prologue to the...
Nina Ananiashvili Rivka Jacobson 19/06/2026Nina Ananiashvili in Conversation with Rivka Jacobson Home, heritage and the soul of Swan Lake Ahead of the State Ballet...
Gary Abrahams in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 19/03/2026For Gary Abrahams, Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl begins not with disguise, but with something more unsettling: possession. As the co-writer...
