Tao of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 01/08/2026Philip Glass and Phelim McDermott have many fine collaborations behind them, especially in iconic operatic productions, but this quirky, intermittently...
Reviewers Rating Carrie the Musical Julie Peakman 01/08/2026This musical has a chequered history. Based on a Stephen King’s 1974 debut novel, it was turned into a play...
Britten – 50th anniversary Prom with Guy Johnston Tim Hochstrasser 30/07/2026Incredibly it is now 50 years since the death of Benjamin Britten. His music has never really experienced the dip...
The Karate Kid Musical Rhys John Edwards 29/07/2026 Wales Millennium Centre No one would blame you for being a little sceptical about a Karate Kid musical. On...
Flop! Richard Voyce 22/07/2026Flop! The Best Songs from the Worst Musicals does exactly what it says on the tin. What the title doesn’t...
Ariadne auf Naxos Tim Hochstrasser 21/07/2026Sitting between Rosenkavalier and Die Frau ohne Schatten, this opera partakes of both – a glamorous Viennese salon setting for...
Swan Lake Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2026The marvel of Swan Lake is its plasticity and flexibility in the hands of so many generations of performers, directors...
The Smile of Her Rivka Jacobson 17/07/2026With that deceptively simple observation, Christine Lahti opens one of the most compelling evenings of theatre currently on the London...
L’Italiana in Algeri Josi Steinfeld 27/07/2026For thirty-seven years, Opus Opéra has presented a festival in the medieval hilltop village of Gattières that has become an...
Tosca Yael Shuv 20/07/2026Floria Tosca is one of opera’s most complex and compelling heroines. Unlike the innocent victims who populate so many operas,...
Die Frau ohne Schatten Alessandro Zummo 12/07/2026Die Frau ohne Schatten (The woman without a shadow) is the fifth and most ambitious collaboration between Richard Strauss and...
Accabadora Alessandro Zummo 10/07/2026The Sardinian word accabadora comes from the root of the Spanish verb acabar, “to finish,” and denotes the woman who...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Soyoon Koo 02/07/2026“Are we all here?” As Quince asks the inaugural question, the line lands with an arch, modern self-awareness. As the...
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...
Francesco Filidei in conversation with Alessandro Zummo Alessandro Zummo 21/07/2026There is a familiar complaint about contemporary opera: that somewhere after the war it stopped speaking to its audience, and...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Soyoon Koo 02/07/2026“Are we all here?” As Quince asks the inaugural question, the line lands with an arch, modern self-awareness. As the...
