| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Apr-2013 Theatre Royal | Dutchman flies into north-east Scotland |
 In Harry Fehr’s much-anticipated new production of The Flying Dutchman for Scottish Opera, the setting is in Scotland – as Wagner had originally intended before a last-minute switch to Norway during rehearsals for the first production in 1843. Fehr also brings the setting to the north-east of Scotland in the 1970s, a time when Scotland was getting to grips with North Sea oil, and indeed, a silhouette of an oil rig emerging out of a bluish fog is depicted on the front stage gauze.Read full review... | |
| 27-Jan-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Miller's no-frills Mozart is back: Così fan tutte at the Royal Opera House |
 PERSSON.jpg) The last opera of the Mozart/Da Ponte cycle – the second of the composer’s operas to be performed in this Mozart-dominated season at the Royal Opera House – Così fan tutte pivots on two pairs of young lovers whose affection is put to the test by an old ‘philosopher’, Don Alfonso. Women, the old man argues, are all the same: never constant in their love, never loyal to their men. It takes three hours of musical comedy and a long list of artfully arranged expedients to demonstrate the sage’s maxim.Read full review... | |
| 14-Nov-2011 Guildhall School Theatre | Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor |
 Otto Nicolai’s very German take on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor was a big hit in the mid-19th century but has been infrequently performed since then, largely because Verdi’s version, Falstaff, completely eclipsed it. The Italian equivalents of Shakespeare’s names – Nannetta for Ann etc – are fairly confusing but the German ones are enough to drive one distracted as Mistress Ford becomes Frau Fluth, Mistress Page turns into Frau Reich and Mistress Quickly disappears altogether.Read full review... | |
