4.0
Review: ‘8’ A Steampunk Opera, The Other Palace
‘8’ A Steampunk Opera, is a dark new musical with gloriously powerful voices, slow sliding melodies and an obscure plot line. This show blurs the line between ...
Opera
4.0
2.0
Review: War and Peace, Royal Opera House
Staging a three-and-a-half hour operatic dramatisation of War and Peace is an ambitious undertaking. Adapting Sergei Prokofiev’s immense opera for the English ...
2.0
Review: Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and Other Love Songs), Lyric Hammersmith
John Gay’s bawdy opera/proto-musical was a revelation and a shock when it first hit London in 1728. Part of this revelation was no doubt its unalloyed scabrous...
Review: La Bohème, London Coliseum
Jonathan Miller’s 2009 production of Puccini’s La Bohème returns to the London Coliseum, revived by director Natascha Metherell to mark the fortieth anniversary...
Review: Muso, Grant Museum of Zoology
One of my favourite things about London is its offering of museums, and not just the classics, like the V&A and the Science Museum. You can come across a lo...
Review: Les Vêpres Siciliennes, The Royal Opera House
Les Vêpres Siciliennes is an epic undertaking by the Royal Opera. Spanning five acts and four hours, it is somewhat of a marathon, where against all the odds th...