Review: Carmen, The Coliseum
Bizet's Carmen is one of the most well known pieces of classical music, let alone operas, of all time. Everyone has heard Escamillo's 'Toreador Song', and with ...
Guy Withers
Review: La Traviata, Royal Opera House
In contrast to Krol Roger, Kasper Holten's production also running at ROH this season, everyone at least knows of Verdi's La Traviata, and especially this produ...
Review: The Pirates of Penzance, The Coliseum
Mike Leigh, celebrated film director and self-proclaimed Gilbert & Sullivan fan, leads English National Opera's latest venture into the world of G&S. Th...
Review: Król Roger, Royal Opera House
Szymanowski's short but gripping opera Król Roger comes to the Royal Opera House for the first time. Composed in 1926, the work has only begun to be programmed ...
Review: English National Opera 2015/16 Season Launch
Following a year of severe financial problems and with an inability to fill London's largest theatre, it is perhaps unsurprising that English National Opera's 2...
Review: Il Turco in Italia, Royal Opera House
As the Rossini biographer Stendhal puts it, "Rossini is always amusing, Mozart never; Mozart is like a mistress who is always serious and often sad, but whose v...
Guy Withers
Guy Withers is a tenor, theatre maker and recent Cardiff University Music Graduate from Bristol studying with Ryland Davies. He is a member of Bristol Opera and Tessitoura, and in addition has sung with many companies around the UK. He is co-founder and Artistic Director of Indomitable Productions, a multi-disciplined performance company, and an Ambassador for The Bristol Old Vic.