| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 12-Mar-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Judith Weir's Miss Fortune at Covent Garden |
 COOPER (1).jpg) There’s usually plenty of hype surrounding a newly written opera performed at Covent Garden, but the carefully placed stories about Judith Weir’s Miss Fortune are on the improbable end of the scale, featuring a flying kebab shop and a team of breakdancers. So I arrived at Miss Fortune without any real idea of what I was going to get. A short 90 minutes of music later, I’m still not entirely sure what it is I’ve just seen.
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| 5-Oct-2011 The London Coliseum | A feminist Figaro |
 What’s the connection between Harry Potter and Mozart? Fiona Shaw is perhaps best known these days as the boy wizard’s Aunt Petunia – or our greatest classical actress for those with longer memories. But for the past few years she’s been quietly building herself a reputation as an opera director, starting with the well-received but obscure Elegy for Young Lovers and Riders to the Sea for English National Opera. Now she’s tackling a cornerstone of the repertoire, Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
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| 31-Jan-2011 The London Coliseum | Mike Figgis directs Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at the ENO |
 The ENO's production of Donizetti's "melodrama in a prologue and two acts" Lucrezia Borgia is notable for two reasons. Firstly, it's a new production of an opera by a major bel canto composer, but one that isn't performed all that often. Secondly, it's the operatic debut of acclaimed film director Mike Figgis.
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