Review: Skunk without K is Sun
Tramway Theatre A beautiful teasing exploration of a theatrical mixture of Opera and Theatre.
Genre: Opera and Operatic Theatre
Review: The Impresario
A light Opera which touches upon big ambitions in a perfect and evocative rendering of a long forgotten time.
Review: The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
An absolute blast with gags galore, soaring operatic arias and great performances
Review: Gilbert and Sullivan’s Improbable New Musical: … and Helen
Comedy musical, a slice of G&S history through parody and song - uplifting!
Review: Amadeus
In the most spectacular production imaginable, Lucian Msamati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival Adam Gillen.
Review: We Are In Time
A heart jumping exploration of transplants with a majesty of the music at its heart and a subtle theatricality expanding it all
Review: Shirley The Middle Aged Siren
The Story of a Gal from New York who has washed up on a nearby beach near you
Review: Lucia di Lammermoor
This is a stunning pocket-sized opera-house quality Lucia. You won’t find a better-sung, more affecting Donizetti this year.
Review: The Rape of Lucretia
Far from being just timely, this Grimeborn production reinvents how we might feel about this troubling, disturbed and absolutely contemporary piece in a time of #Me Too.
Review: The Fabulous Bäckström Brothers
An operatic clown show, first performed in Helsinki in September 2014.
Review: 4.48 Psychosis
An outstandingly imaginative, fearless recreation of Kane’s testament in another medium. It triumphs and is easily the most remarkable, necessary opera to have been produced in years.
Review: Amadeus
In the most spectacular production imaginable, the antagonisms between the black-suited and marzipan fight it out in this extraordinary sumptuous and consummately musical production. Far from seeming out of place, Adam Gillen’s Young Ones-style shrilling brat with his technicolour frock-coats seems almost more attuned than Salieri to his milieu. It’s naturally the corresponding gravity this production looks to though: Lucian Msmati’s supremely crafted lead sets off the quicksilver of his rival to an unprecedented extent.
Review: The Threepenny Opera
A coming-of-age for Rufus Norris, a wholly credible, cheekily interventionist Threepenny Opera with a few devastating critiques
Review: The Secretary Turned CEO
Baroque meets blues in this brilliant take on La Serva Padrona, Pergolesi’s comic intermezzo.
Review: The Future for Beginners
An intriguing premise and excellent performances. You will leave smiling.
Review: Through the Looking Screen
Hundreds of friends and no one to come home to. Annabel is trying to land her perfect match.
Review: Monsters and Prodigies
An interesting if somewhat confused look at the strange world of the castrati
Review: El Gallo
Five go mad for the music (and end up singing in their y-fronts) in this tragic-comic ‘opera for actors’
