Reviewer's rating Armida Josi Steinfeld 18/05/2023People may not have heard of Dvořak’s rarely performed Armida. Dvořak was at the height of his powers when composing...
Reviewer's rating Agrippina Owen Davies 18/05/2023Handel wrote a lot of operas and some are better than others. Agrippina was written for the Venice Carnival of...
Reviewer Rating Es and Flo Rhys John Edwards 17/05/2023Jennifer Lunn must be relieved. Not only did Es and Flo turn out to be a remarkable and captivating play...
Helen Emma Burnell 17/05/2023Helen starts with a death. As the action begins we see Helen (Jo Mousley) and Becca (Chloe Wade) lose their...
Reviewer's Rating Leaves of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 16/05/2023This play by Philip Ridley was first shown in 2007 at the Soho Theatre where it was a considerable success...
Reviewer's rating Theodor תיאודור Yael Shuv 13/05/2023Every now and then the Israeli Opera presents a whole new and truly original Israeli opera sung in Hebrew. On...
Music for Refugees Mel Cooper 11/05/2023On Saturday, 22 April 2023, in the mediaeval University Church of St Mary’s in Oxford, an important new initiative was...
Reviewer's rating Cymbeline Mel Cooper 11/05/2023Gregory Doran has created a truly brilliant evening of theatre in his new production of Shakespeare’s romantic masterpiece, Cymbeline. There...
Reviewer's rating Tony! Tony Blair the Rock Opera Paul Richards 10/05/2023Many unlikely historical figures have been the subject of rock operas – Sweeney Todd, Eva Peron, Jesus Christ – and...
Reviewer's Rating Jonah – Theme of the Sea Tim Hochstrasser 10/05/2023The centrepiece of this one-off concert was ‘Jonah’, a new oratorio by Ian Fletcher. But the evening as a whole...
