Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Putting on a production of Seven Brides For Seven Brothers in this day and age…
Browsing: Music
Sinatra: The Man & His Music
Sinatra: The Man & His Music is timed to coincide with Frank Sinatra’s centenary and,…
The Rape of Lucretia
The fuss that greeted the Royal Opera House’s current production of William Tell has proved…
Poliuto at Glyndebourne
This year’s Glyndebourne season is unusually daring, with few of the big commercial bankers that…
Garsington Opera: Death in Venice
Whilst Garsington Opera’s annual festival on the Wormsley Estate has been a key date in…
Glyndebourne: Die Entführung aus dem Serail
I owe my appreciation of opera to the actor Tom Hulce. If the name doesn’t…
Jonathan Dove’s Flight at Opera Holland Park
There is an effect that Jonathan Dove’s Flight has that does something unlike anything one…
Chorus!
Nick Hammond takes on Welsh National Opera’s latest offering at Milton Keynes Theatre – and…
Garsington Opera 2015
Garsington Opera at Wormsley presents its 26th season with three new productions – Richard Strauss’s…
Madam Butterfly
This Raymond Gubbay in-the-round production of one of Giacomo Puccini’s best loved operas was first…
The Majestic Morricone
NICK HAMMOND is swept up by a sea-swell of romance at an evening in the…
The Way Back Home
My smugness disappeared rapidly as the box office chap tapped away fruitlessly at his computer.…