Reviews
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Review: Opera at Aldeburgh 2019
Opera at Aldeburgh Festival, Snape Maltings Review by Claire Jackson Thomas Larcher’s The Hunting Gun, first performed at the BregenzRead More -
Review: Berenice
Berenice – Handel London Handel Festival Royal Opera House Review by Robert Thicknesse Female fighters Some things never change,Read More -
Review: Andrea Chénier
Andrea Chénier Cilea Royal Opera House 27 May 2019 Review By Francis Muzzu David McVicar’s production of Andrea ChénierRead More -
Online production of the month: Khovanshchina
Khovanshchina Mussorgsky La Scala, Milan Review by James Imam Photography by Brescia & Amisano Crouched over his score likeRead More -
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
