| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 15-Sep-2012 Kennedy Center: Opera House | Sondra Radvanovsky shines in Washington National Opera's Anna Bolena |
 Ladies and gentlemen of Washington DC and the nearby lands!
If last fall you did not get a chance to journey to New York for the Met’s season-opening production of Anna Bolena – do not fret! Last Saturday the Washington National Opera opened its new season with a production of Anna Bolena (a little too bloody for a season opening if you ask me, but maybe that’s what attracts most people to opera these days).
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| 12-Nov-2011 The London Coliseum | True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin |
.jpg) Young man spurns the love of a good woman. Time passes. Man realises the error of his ways, but it is too late. It's not exactly the most taxing of plot lines, but in Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin turned it into a masterpiece. The genius is in the characterisation of the impetuosity of youth and its consequences, which turns this into a universal work: we have all had violent crushes, we have all had petulant quarrels, we have all been weary of life when it has maltreated us (or even if it has treated us too well), and we all have our regrets.
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| 26-Feb-2011 The London Coliseum | Jonathan Miller's Mikado returns to the ENO |
 Jonathan Miller's much-loved production of The Mikado for English National Opera is now 25 years old and well remembered. But not, I confess by me. My last experience of Gilbert and Sullivan was on the other side of the curtain, as a sister, cousin or aunt in a school production of HMS Pinafore, an experience sufficiently scarring that I resolved never to go to a G&S opera again. But I admit that forty years was probably overdoing it, and I went along to the Coliseum last night fully bent on enjoying the evening.
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