| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 6-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | English Touring Opera perform Britten's Albert Herring in London |
 “Community, exclusion, rejection and desire”, writes director Christopher Rolls about English Touring Opera’s production of Albert Herring. “Doesn’t sound like a recipe for an uproarious comedy does it?Read full review... | |
| 4-Dec-2010 Royal College of Music: Britten Theatre | Orpheus in the Underworld - the antidote to highbrow opera |
 If anyone tells you that all opera is highbrow, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld provides you with a perfect example of the opposite. It's coarse, raunchy, fast, fun, and continually pokes fun at the conventions of grand opera. You can get the idea from the plot: Orpheus is bored with Eurydice and delighted when Pluto carries her off to hell, but Public Opinion forces him to plead with the gods for permission to go and fetch her; the gods are bored sick with Nectar, Ambrosia and the sunless mists of Olympus, so it's a great excuse to all go down to Hell for a jolly good party.
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