Review: Lessons in Love and Violence, The Royal Opera House
“It’s nothing to do with loving a man, it’s love full stop that’s poison”. This is the opening line of Lessons in Love and Violence, a new opera by George Benja...
Peter Hoare
Review: Jenufa, London Coliseum
To make opera more accessible and inviting to new (and younger) audiences – this is the challenging but commendable mission that English National Opera have set...
Review: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, The Coliseum
At just 19 years old, Dmitri Shostakovich unveiled his First Symphony in Leningrad to widespread acclaim and was compared to such greats as Stravinsky and Proko...
Review: The Queen of Spades, The Coliseum
ENO concludes its latest season of work with The Queen of Spades, an opera that’s been dormant in their company for over 20 years. David Alden’s staging of T...