Zazà at Opera Holland Park
I love Opera Holland Park. Let’s get that out of the way up front. The…
Browsing: The Culturist
Kát’a Kabanová: Opera Holland Park
Holland Park Opera have just revived Olivia Fuchs’s hugely successful 2009 production of Leoš Janáček’s…
RSC’s Queen Anne
No one really remembers much about Queen Anne. When I announced to colleagues where I…
RSC’s The Tempest
It is something of a truism to state that Simon Russell Beale is unmissable in…
Ink
The frighteningly talented young playwright James Graham seems to be engaged in a competition with…
Midsummer Prom: Iford Arts 2017
There’s nothing like a prom to get you feeling patriotic, even in Brexit-negotiation Britain. However,…
Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill
Glamorous black and white photographs of a jazz singer with bright white gardenias in her…
Otello at the ROH
In an interview in 2015, the Royal Opera’s Music Director Antonio Pappano said there are…
Racing Demon
The first production in Jonathan Church’s inaugural season at Theatre Royal Bath, Racing Demon is the great…
Opera at Iford: Barber of Seville
After a mesmerising la Boheme to open, the 2017 season of Opera at Iford is…
Carmen at The Grange Festival 2017
The sun shone for the opening of the inaugural Grange Festival’s new production of Carmen,…
La Rondine at Opera Holland Park
Opera Holland Park, carrying something of the mantle for staging lesser-known works, revisit La Rondine…