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Eurotrash Verdi: ENO’s Luisa Miller reviewed
Richard Bratby 29 February 2020 9:00 am
Verdi’s Luisa Miller is set in the Tyrol in the early 17th century, and for some opera directors that’s a…
As good a treatment of a Bellini opera as we are likely to see: WNO's I puritani reviewed
Michael Tanner 19 September 2015 8:00 am
Bellini belongs to that category of not-quite-great operatic composers whose works are also very difficult to perform adequately, and don’t…
ENO’s The Girl of the Golden West is irresistibly seductive
Hugo Shirley 11 October 2014 9:00 am
Puccini’s La fanciulla del West is, one suspects, one of those works that modern audiences struggle to keep a straight…
Robo-Tell hits Welsh National Opera
Hugo Shirley 27 September 2014 9:00 am
Is there a fundamental, insuperable problem with staging Rossini’s Guillaume Tell on a budget, without the resources to conjure up…
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