“A cartoon samurai from the 80s, inexplicably crossed with a teletubby”: Andrew Haydon reviews the ENO’s staging of Wagner that is somewhat marred by costume and set design choices.
Opera
4 April 2016
Reviews • Opera
Review: The Importance of Being Earnest at the Barbican
Barbican Theatre ⋄ 29th March - 3rd April 2016
By Maddy Costa
“There is a violence at the heart of this opera,” Maddy Costa reviews The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Ramin Gray.
8 March 2016
Reviews • Opera
Review: Akhnaten at ENO
London Coliseum ⋄ 8th - 18th March 2016
By Amelia Forsbrook
Amelia Forsbrook discovers a religious revolutionary with a choir boy’s sweetness.
22 February 2016
Reviews • Opera
Review: Norma at the London Coliseum
London Coliseum ⋄ 24th February - 11th March 2016
By Amelia Forsbrook
Sapphic skirt pawing and neat duets make the women the stars of this ENO performance.
12 May 2015
Reviews • Opera
The Pirates of Penzance
London Coliseum ⋄ 9th May - 4th July 2015
By Tim Bano
A review in verse.
15 April 2015
Reviews • Opera
Between Worlds
Barbican Theatre ⋄
By Tom Wicker
An excess of tragic irony.
12 April 2015
Reviews • Opera
WNO Spring 2015
Bristol Hippodrome ⋄ 8th - 11th April 2015
By Rosemary Waugh
The brothers Grimm in bowler hats.
24 February 2015
Reviews • Opera
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
London Coliseum ⋄ 7th February - 10th March 2015
By Maddy Costa
To be cradled at the heart of life’s contradictions.
14 February 2015
Reviews • Opera
La Traviata
London Coliseum ⋄ 9th February - 13th March 2015
By Tim Bano
Violetta meets Jessie J.
22 January 2015
Reviews • Opera
Orfeo
Roundhouse ⋄ 13th - 24th January 2015
By Maddy Costa
Why, in the name of Zeus?