| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-May-2013 Yerba Buena Centre for the Arts: Lam Research Theater (former Novellus Theatre) | Philip Glass' La Belle et la Bête in San Francisco |
 When I first saw Jean Cocteau’s 1946 cinematic masterpiece La Belle et la Bête on DVD several years ago, its visual storytelling made such a strong impression that a few of its images became unforgettably burned into my memory: disembodied hands grasping candles, statues that blinked, and the Beast himself, a giant kitty-cat who was more pathetic and sad than terrifying. Aurally, several features proved equally indelible, especially the Beast’s high, croaky voice and poetic delivery as he implores Beauty to marry him.Read full review... | |
| 4-May-2012 Barbican Theatre | Einstein on the Beach at the Barbican |
 It isn’t so much that Einstein on the Beach is impossible to summarise, I don’t think, as that it’s just impossible generally. At least, if you were to list this opera’s various constituent elements to somebody, and ask them if it was basically plausible, they would probably say no. Suffice it to say the following: it is four and a half hours long and there is no interval. It has no plot, yet it’s gripping, in a way. The text makes very little sense and relates to both Einstein and the beach only ever tangentially, and most of the time not at all.Read full review... | |
