- Venue: Opera Holland Park
- Date: 15th August 2021
- Directed by: Victoria Newlyn (Director); Peter Robinson (Conductor)
- Staring: Joe Chalmers (bass baritone); Laura Fleur (mezzo-soprano)
Hope for the future of English Opera?
This evening at Opera Holland Park to see the British Youth Opera’s L’occasione fa il Ladro (Rossini) one of two operas (with two performances apiece) offered here by BYO.
- Venue: The Barbican
- Date: 11th August 2021
- Staring: Jean Dubuffet
An assault on the senses – in a good way?
Yesterday at Brutal Beauty – the Barbican’s exhibition of works by Jean Dubuffet.
- Venue: Glyndebourne Festival Theatre
- Date: 4th August 2021
- Directed by: Christof Loy
- Staring: Mané Galoyan
No laughing matter…
Last night at Luisa Miller at Glyndebourne. This opera is based on a play by Friedrich von Schiller, not well known for his comic farces… and this is a Tragedy with a capital T (just a warning).
- Venue: Hampstead Theatre
- Date: 29th July 2021
- Directed by: Sam Yates
- Staring: Kate O’Flynn; Zubin Varla
A challenging, but rewarding, watch
Just back from the second revival of the week, this time Tennessee Williams’ Two Character Play at Hampstead Theatre, where it originally premiered in 1967.
- Venue: Barbican Theatre
- Date: 27th July 2021
- Directed by: Kathleen Marshall
- Staring: Sutton Foster; Robert Lindsay; Felicity Kendal; Gary Wilmot
Socially un-distanced magic
Just back from Anything Goes at the Barbican.
- Venue: National Theatre (Olivier)
- Date: 9th July 2021
- Directed by: Lyndsey Turner
- Staring: Michael Sheen; Siân Phillips; Karl Johnson
Strange intro and coda – wonderful main course
Just back from Under Milk Wood at the National.