Semiramide at the ROH starring Joyce DiDonato
Semiramide is the kind of opera I usually struggle with for all sorts of reasons,…
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Marnie: English National Opera
Is it a book? Is it a film? Is it an opera? Actually, it’s all…
Welsh National Opera: Eugene Onegin
Welsh National Opera called at Bristol Hippodrome last week; the penultimate venue on their UK…
Lucia di Lammermoor
When Katie Mitchell’s production of Donizetti’s Gothic masterpiece first appeared in 2016, it was not…
Andrea Bocelli in Jerash
Staging an operatic event in a theatre that dates back millennia is usually the kind…
Mansfield Park at The Grange Festival
The grandiose architecture of The Grange was a fitting place to stage this new operatic…
Die Zauberflote at the ROH
There is some irony in the fact that women are totally disenfranchised in the court…
Zazà at Opera Holland Park
I love Opera Holland Park. Let’s get that out of the way up front. The…
Kát’a Kabanová: Opera Holland Park
Holland Park Opera have just revived Olivia Fuchs’s hugely successful 2009 production of Leoš Janáček’s…
Midsummer Prom: Iford Arts 2017
There’s nothing like a prom to get you feeling patriotic, even in Brexit-negotiation Britain. However,…
Otello at the ROH
In an interview in 2015, the Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano said there are…
Opera at Iford: Barber of Seville
After a mesmerising la Boheme to open, the 2017 season of Opera at Iford is…