Ariadne auf Naxos (Susan Elkin reviews)
Antony McDonald, director of this production, puts a modern, mildly feminist spin on Richard Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera and it responds rather well. The...
Antony McDonald, director of this production, puts a modern, mildly feminist spin on Richard Strauss’s opera-within-an-opera and it responds rather well. The...
Investec Holland Park Isabeau is a strange, rather clunky piece and it was completely new to me. Think Spamalotmeets The Merchant of Venice with a seasoning...
Dulwich Opera Company This rather elegant, intelligent Cosi is a good example of what can be achieved with six singers, a pianist...
De La Warr Pavilion, Sunday 1 July 2018 An hour with Rodgers and Hammerstein is, on a glorious summer evening by the...
When I interviewed Emma Troubridge, ROH’s Head of Scenic Art, recently, she told me that this Swan Lake is the biggest show she has...
I first encountered La Traviata when I was about nine. My father, who wasn’t actually a great classical music man, saw it at Royal...
What a strange piece Cosi fan tutte is. In a way it covers the same ground as A Midsummer Night’s Dream – sexual licence and the...
Temple Church Choir, London, 24 May 2018 Temple Church, with its lofty fan faulting and intricate stained glass glinting in the early...