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REVIEW: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Opera Holland Park’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Photo: Alex Brenner Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Opera Holland Park 18/07/15 5 Stars This delightful opera by Will Todd...
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REVIEW: Lakmé, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Lakmé Opera Holland Park 23/07/2015 5 Stars There are many reasons why an opera wildly successful at its opening falls by the wayside in subsequent generations. It may be down to...
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REVIEW: L’Amore Dei Tre Re, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Aled Hall as Flaminio, Mikhail Svetlov as Archibaldo, Simon Thorpe as Manfredo and Natalya Romaniw as Fiora in L’Amore dei tre Re L’Amore Dei Tre Re (The Love Of Three Kings)...
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REVIEW: Garine, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Gariné Arcola Studio 1 14/08/15 4 Stars The annual Grimeborn Opera Festival aims not only to provide a showcase for contemporary opera and new versions of established repertory, but...
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REVIEW: Marsha – A Girl Who Does Bad Things, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Marsha – A Girl Who Does Bad Things Arcola Studios 2 13/08/15 3 Stars As we arrive for this latest installment in the Grimeborn Festival we are issued with a mask bearing the...
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REVIEW: La Boheme, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser La Bohème Arcola Studio 1 05/08/15 4 Stars What more can be done with La Bohème? With the Royal Opera House finally retiring its venerable John Copley production after forty years,...
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REVIEW: The Clown Of Clowns, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser The Clown Of Clowns Arcola Studio 2 04/08/15 5 Stars Double bills can often be problematic. Rarely do they form a harmonious combination: one can appear simply to be a filler for...
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REVIEW: Falstaff, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Falstaff Arcola Studio 1 18/08/15 5 Stars ‘People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what’s wrong with it.’ Noël Coward When...
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REVIEW: Daphne, Arcola Theatre ✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Daphne Arcola Studio 1 20/08/15 2 Stars Richard Strauss wrote his one-act opera Daphne late in his compositional career, in the mid-1930s. It is not performed often and is ripe for...
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REVIEW: The Medium and The Wanton Sublime, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Hai Ting Chinn in The Wanton Sublime. Photo: Robert Workman The Medium and The Wanton Sublime Arcola Studio 2 26/08/15 4 Stars And so to the culmination of the contemporary opera...
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Ellen Kent’s La Boheme UK Tour
By Douglas Mayo Opera and Ballet International will present a UK tour of Ellen Kent’s production of Puccini’s La Boheme. La Boheme will feature international soloists, chorus and a full orchestra in...
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REVIEW: Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland, Opera Holland Park ✭✭✭✭✭
By Tim Hochstrasser Opera Holland Park’s Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland. Photo: Alex Brenner Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland Opera Holland Park 18/07/15 5 Stars This delightful opera by Will Todd...
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REVIEW: Ulysses’ Homecoming, Hackney Empire ✭✭✭✭
By Danny Coleman-Cooke Ulysses’ Homecoming Hackney Empire 15th October 2016 4 Stars Book Tickets Ancient Greek hero Ulysses is a man back in fashion. After My Father Ulysses at the Unicorn Theatre last...
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Ellen Kent’s La Boheme UK Tour
By Douglas Mayo Opera and Ballet International will present a UK tour of Ellen Kent's production of Puccini's La Boheme. La Boheme will feature international soloists, chorus and a full orchestra in...
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Ellen Kent’s Aida UK Tour
By Douglas Mayo Ellen Kent has announced a new spectacular interpretation of Verdi's classic opera Aida with international soloists, chorus and full orchestra. Aida will star French Soprano Olga...
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Ellen Kent’s Nabucco UK Tour
By Douglas Mayo Ellen Kent returns with a production of Verdi's Nabucco, which was the very first opera that she produced. Nabucco stars Olga Perrier, the international French Soprano as Abigail,...
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Dance Opera and comedy at forefront of Storyhouse Spring Season 2018
By Douglas Mayo English Touring Opera's Gianni Schicchi. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Following its recent opening Storyhouse Chester has revealed the first shows in its Spring Season for 2018, with...
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Innovative new production of The Cunning Little Vixen comes to Grimeborn
By Douglas Mayo Director Guido Martin-Brandis brings an innovative new production of Janácek's The Cunning Little Vixen to the Arcola Theatre as part of the Grimeborn Festival 2017. Guido...
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Casting announced for Fever Pitch the opera
By Douglas Mayo Top: Joanna Harries, Robin Bailey. Bottom: Rob Gildon, Nick Allen Twenty-five years after Nick Hornby's iconic book was first published, Highbury Opera Theatre have announced the...
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REVIEW: La Boheme, Trafalgar Studios ✭✭✭✭✭
By Paul T Davies Thomas Isherwood (Mark), Becca Marriott (Mimi) and Roger Paterson (Ralph) in La Boheme. La Boh́́eme Trafalgar Studios. 11 December 2017 5 Stars Book Now It’s Dalston, Christmas Eve...
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