| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-Apr-2013 The London Coliseum | Refreshingly unfussy: Jonathan Miller's classic La bohème revived at ENO |
 What to do with a “classic revival” that has, in the main, met the critics’ eye of approval? That was the question facing Natascha Metherell, the revival director of ENO’s production of La bohème, which opened this week at the Coliseum. The revival was in fact deftly handled: a production which remained faithful to Miller’s original vision, with honest, rather than over-egged, sentimentality.
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| 2-Dec-2012 Southbank Centre: Royal Festival Hall | The Merry Widow at the Royal Festival Hall |
 Franz Lehár’s favourite haunt was Vienna’s Café Sperl, and with the famous Theater an der Wien around the corner, Café Sperl became the meeting place for the operetta crowd around the turn of the 20th century. The Theater an der Wien was the site of the world première of Lehár’s tenth stage work, The Merry Widow, which met its enthusiastic public on 30 December 1905. Lehár would later celebrate the piece’s 300th performance at the Café Sperl.
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| 10-Aug-2012 Buxton Opera House | A British tar is a soaring soul: HMS Pinafore at the Buxton Gilbert and Sullivan Festival |
 Few 19th-century operettas exceed HMS Pinafore in style, wit and musical accomplishment; the principal candidates in English are The Mikado, and The Yeoman of the Guard, plus a few offerings by Lionel Monckton and Sidney Jones. Any foreign contender would surely be one of the champagne-soaked Viennese delicacies by the Strauss family or Carl Zeller.
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| 29-Jul-2012 Buxton Opera House | Marvellous Mikado at the Buxton Gilbert and Sullivan Festival |
 The Gilbert and Sullivan canon perhaps achieves the pinnacle of its greatness with The Mikado. The ninth of their fourteen collaborations, it was premièred at the Savoy Theatre in 1885 and the gentlemen were rewarded with an extraordinary success.
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