Reviews
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Review: The Monstrous Child
The Monstrous Child Gavin Higgins 21 February – 3 March 2019 Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House It’s not easy beingRead More -
Scottish Opera: Anthropocene
Theatre Royal, Glasgow **** Review by Kenneth Walton 11 years ago, when Scottish Opera launched its Five:15 project – an initiativeRead More -
Review: Marx in London
Jonathan Dove, Theater Bonn Music **** Staging *** When Jürgen Weber, the enterprising director at Theater Bonn, first proposed theRead More -
Review by George Hall Over recent decades it’s become fashionable for companies to stage oratorios and other choral works. LeadingRead More -
Opera Nacional de Chile stages Catholic Church satire
Review by Karyl Charna Lynn El Cristo de Elqui, or The Christ of Elqui, was the Teatro Municipal’s first worldRead More -
Lessons in Love and Violence at Covent Garden
The libretto is full of meaty conflicts. The performances are excellent. The orchestral sound-world is full of ear-tingling surprises. SoRead More -
BBC Music magazine announces winners of its 2018 awards
Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra have won BBC Music magazine’s Recording of the Year for their performanceRead More -
First impressions
Young music lover Rosie Mortimer visits Covent Garden for her first experience of opera, where she is bowled over byRead More -
Berlioz: Les Troyens
Strasbourg Philharmonic, John Nelson Erato 0190295762209 ***** One of the best opera releases of last year was a complete newRead More -
Cinderella receives US premiere
