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Saturday, 8 March 2014

Rigoletto at ENO

13/02/14 Rigoletto is an opera I have seen many times before and have never previously loved, but after having seen this, I now fully ...

Friday, 31 January 2014

Peter Grimes at ENO

29/01/14 An odd production this. It isn't boring, but it flattens Britten's drama into a piece of caricature and grotesque ...

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Manon at ROH

14/01/14 Few operas are so obviously relevant to our own times than Massenet's Manon . The story is not dissimilar from...

Saturday, 11 January 2014

Ravel Double Bill at RCM

7/12/13 Ravel's operas are an odd choice in some ways for a student showcase production because they rely so little on vocal dis...

Monday, 23 December 2013

Roberto Devereux with WNO

08/11/13 Bristol Hippodrome The three Donizetti queens were never intended as a cycle, but the fact that they represent a historical succ...

The Rape of Lucretia at Glyndebourne on Tour

28/11/13 The Rape of Lucretia makes a return to Glyndebourne after a hiatus of 67 years, and for me it wasn't quite the triumphant ...

Sunday, 1 December 2013

Parsifal at ROH (New Langridge Production)

30/11/13 photo copyright ROH/Telegraph Parsifal is a tricky work. No one I know claims to fully understand it, and of Wagner's ...

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