| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 20-Oct-2012 War Memorial Opera House | Lohengrin returns to San Francisco in effective new production |
 Wagner’s Lohengrin was the last work the master completed before settling into a mid-career six-year slump. During this compositional hiatus, he wrote the poems for his Ring operas and ruminated in print on various topics, musical and otherwise, but work on the music dramas essentially ceased.Read full review... | |
| 27-Feb-2012 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Rusalka comes from Salzburg to the Royal Opera |
 BARDA.jpg) Most of Dvořák's ten operas are rarely performed, but Rusalka, his tragic fairy tale of the water nymph who takes human form, has become popular in recent years and is a regular visitor to British opera houses. Last night's production, by directors Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, started life at the 2008 Salzburg festival and has now arrived in Covent Garden. I found it an evening of opposites: seldom have my feelings been so polarised about different aspects of a production.
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