| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 2-Jun-2012 Garsington Opera | Ottavio's Revenge: Don Giovanni at Garsington Opera |
, Mary Bevan (Zerlina),m Sophie Bevan (Elvira) credit Mike Hoban.jpg) A trip to the opera at Garsington in its new, idyllic setting at Wormsley Estate, Buckinghamshire, is a fine treat even in the rain. And with a Don Giovanni production which, despite plenty of oddities, is light-hearted and often witty, an excellent evening of high-class entertainment is guaranteed.
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| 12-Nov-2011 Kings Place: Hall One | Youthful singing bring out the charm in Mozart's Il re pastore |
 Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company have made a specialty of performing early Mozart operas and at the weekend, they gave two performances of his two-act serenata, Il re pastore as part of the series “Mozart Unwrapped” at Kings Place. The Classical Opera Company is known for their Associate Artist scheme where they nurture and give experience to talented young singers and several of them have already made it to the international stage.Read full review... | |
| 10-Jul-2011 Royal Albert Hall | A Really Big Carmina Burana |
 Those of us who are regulars at the Royal Albert Hall know how difficult it can be for an orchestra and choir to really fill that enormous space with sound. The Really Big Chorus have a simple recipe for this: start with a choir with 1,500 members, add some top class soloists, lightly amplified, then add an orchestra whom someone has clearly briefed with the sentence "when I say fortissimo, I mean fortissimo." Oh, and by the way, choose a choral work with the highest impact beginning and end that anyone's ever written - Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.
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| 27-Jun-2011 The London Coliseum | Two Boys, ENO |
 It's about time someone wrote an opera about the internet. And who better than Nico Muhly - snarky blogger, snappy Tweeter, and according to the Daily Telegraph "the hottest young composer around"? Add seasoned playwright Craig Lucas, top Broadway director Bartlett Sher and some of Britain's finest singers, and you might expect them to cook up a success. The ingredients do sound promising, but the souffle fails to rise.
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