Island of Dreams, Grange Park Opera: a quixotic, overly literal take on The Tempest
Composer Anthony Bolton has an admirable go at adapting Shakespeare’s play but fails to add enough to the text
Composer Anthony Bolton has an admirable go at adapting Shakespeare’s play but fails to add enough to the text
The iconoclastic composer Michael Tippett would have absolutely loved Keith Warner’s reworking of his eccentric production
This inventive take on the 1707 dramatic allegory is an astonishing reflection on the human condition and the dynamics of family life
No-one would call Verdi’s fifth opera perfect, but Buxton’s singers, led by Nadine Benjamin as heroine Elvira, spin straw into gold
This new staging of the 1921 opera beautifully captures one of the most concentrated and eloquent of Janáček’s works
The Merry Widow in this most rarified of country-house settings? She may not entirely belong here, but this staging sweeps you along even so
There is little innovation in this new production – but that’s no bad thing when the leads are as strong as this
David Bates’s conducting leaves little flexibility and freedom for the voices to create their own drama out of Busenello’s vivid text
Grange Park’s season opens with a double bill crafted around the talents of Bryn Terfel – all-round sophisticated exuberance
A solid production, infectiously rhythmic conducting and some remarkable young talent on stage make for a hugely enjoyable evening
Melly Still’s staging of Mozart’s masterpiece at beautiful Nevil Holt is bristling with ideas – which is both its strength and its weakness
This gaudy 1896 drama is an odd choice for the swansong of Covent Garden’s great music director, but he just about pulls it off
This biting new production wrenches the piece into the present, displaying a struggle for women’s autonomy in the face of male oppression
This opera’s constant energy and drive was captured to the full by the small, taut forces of the Irish Baroque Orchestra
Thanks to devastating funding cuts from both the English and Welsh art councils, the future of this brilliant company is now at stake
Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s unforgettable, dream-like adaptation won’t please everyone – but it demands to be seen