Semiramide at the ROH starring Joyce DiDonato
Semiramide is the kind of opera I usually struggle with for all sorts of reasons,…
Browsing: The Culturist
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…
Drawn in Colour: Degas from the Burrell
What does one of the founding fathers of Impressionism and a nineteenth century Scottish shipping…
Christmas Eve
Niamh Cusack and Patrick Baladi star in German playwright Daniel Kehlman’s Christmas Eve, directed by…
Lucia di Lammermoor
When Katie Mitchell’s production of Donizetti’s Gothic masterpiece first appeared in 2016, it was not…
Young Marx
To say that expectations were high for the opening of London’s newest theatre, the Bridge,…
The Railway Children
This Exeter Northcott and Nick Brooke production of The Railway Children directed by Paul Jepson,…
Kenneth MacMillan: A Celebration
The Royal Opera House’s retrospective of Kenneth MacMillan’s work – 25 years after his death…
People, Places & Things
Duncan Macmillan’s ground-breaking play People, Places & Things opened at The National Theatre’s Dorfman in…
Venus in Fur
There surely couldn’t be a better moment to bring to the West End stage a…
Andrea Bocelli in Jerash
Staging an operatic event in a theatre that dates back millennia is usually the kind…