Gerald Barry’s madcap Alice’s Adventures Under Ground at the Royal Opera House. It seems very pretty,” she said when she had finished it, “but it’s rather hard to understand!” (You see she didn’t like to confess, even to herself, that she couldn’t make it out at all.) “Somehow it seems to fill my head with […]
Puccini’s La Bohème at the Royal Opera House – Review
The Ultimate Operatic Romance? La Bohème at the Royal Opera House. With our relentless hounding of pop culture icons through the media such as Princess Diana or Amy Winehouse, we are a culture just as obsessed with the ‘femme fragile’ as the late 19th-century audience for whom the consumptive female heroines of Giuseppe Verdi’s La […]
La Traviata at the Royal Opera House – Review
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi – A Revival Worth Catching. It’s the 25th anniversary of Richard Eyre’s landmark production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata and so with the latest revival having just opened at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, we were delighted to be asked to review. La Traviata has one of the great […]
Madam Butterfly – ENO at the London Coliseum – Review
Puccini’s Madam Butterfly Reinvented at the London Coliseum. *Update – this ENO production of Madam Butterfly returns to the London Coliseum from 26th February 2020 to 20th March 2020 – tickets on sale from £23.20 now from available from the English National Opera box office* I have often thought about going to the opera but […]