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Monday, 17 March 2014

Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the ROH

14/03/14 17/03/14 - some corrections and comments have been made for the second night performance, altogether a better experience. Die F...

Sunday, 9 March 2014

Review Catch up

ROH Carmen ROH Don Giovanni ROH Manon ETO Paul Bunyan ETO King Priam I have been terrifyingly busy this past month, and this, com...

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...

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