Fedora at If Opera
If Opera has returned to Belcombe Court in Wiltshire, opening with the highly anticipated new…
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Ruddigore at Opera Holland Park
The Victorian penchant for the Gothic and the macabre is well known. It was seen…
La Bohème at Opera Holland Park
There are two big stars in Opera Holland Park’s new production of La Bohème. Katie…
Hansel and Gretel at Opera Holland Park
There are many versions of the folk tale of Hansel and Gretel. They range from…
Così fan tutte at The Grange Festival
The beloved comic opera, Così fan tutte (meaning ‘Women all do thus’) premiered in 1790…
The Grange Festival 2023
The Grange Festival, founded in 2017 by Michael Chance OBE, has followed in the noble…
Rigoletto at Opera Holland Park
Cecilia Stinton’s new production of Rigoletto for Opera Holland Park updates its setting from Renaissance…
Garsington Opera 2023
Garsington Opera in Oxfordshire opens on 31st May, the epitome of what a refined country…
Ain’t Too Proud
Were the Sixties a more innocent time? On the surface of it, you might think…
Akhnaten at the ENO
From its first opening ripples of sound, Philip Glass’s Akhnaten draws you into a different…
It’s A Wonderful Life at the ENO
Another week and another opening at the Coliseum for the beleaguered English National Opera. And…
The Yeomen of the Guard at the ENO
As I suspect is the case for many Londoners, the English National Opera has a…