Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Owen Davies 10/10/2016begin with a confession. As a Mozart enthusiast, I went to the ENO’s dress rehearsal of Don Giovanni …. and...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi Fan Tutte Owen Davies 23/09/2016ovent Garden’s new production of Cosi Fan Tutte is fizzing with fresh ideas. Young German director, Jan Philipp Glogier, paints...
Reviewer's Rating Le Nozze di Figaro Owen Davies 22/08/2016ozart’s Marriage of Figaro returns to the Sussex opera house in the production first put together by director Michael Grandage...
Reviewer's Rating Le Nozze di Figaro Mel Cooper 03/07/2016ou do not go to Longborough for hugely glamorous productions. A bit like Bayreuth after WWII, the approach is highly...
Reviewer's Rating Cosi Fan Tutte Owen Davies 13/03/2016osi fan Tutte is an opera that is perfect for cutting down to its essentials. The chorus is easily dispensable...
Reviewer's Rating The Magic Flute Rivka Jacobson 08/02/2016he Magic Flute has never lost its enchantment since it was first premiered in a small theatre in Vienna in...
Reviewer's Rating La Finta Giardiniera S.A. McCracken 06/11/2014his production is no undiscovered classic, but it is a slice of rarely performed, highly stylised and utterly ridiculous fun....
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Mel Cooper 21/10/2014t took me a while to grow comfortable with (or even figure out) the visual and metaphoric concept behind this...
The Magic Flute Owen Davies 11/03/2014ozart’s Magic Flute is so rich in music and in story that it can bear a hundred different interpretations. It...