Review: Vaughan Williams, J.M. Synge Riders to the Sea
Betteridge’s prologue is certainly worth seeing even if you know the work, and won’t need persuading. And after the opera, the rest is surf, and silence.
Genre: Opera and Operatic Theatre
Review: Dawn Again: A Rap Opera
Elliot has a problem: two girlfriends, both giving birth on the same day in the same hospital
Review: Skunk without K is Sun
Tramway Theatre A beautiful teasing exploration of a theatrical mixture of Opera and 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’
