| 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... | |
| 18-Jun-2012 Garsington Opera | Garsington Opera's La Périchole bubbles and delights |
 The West End/Broadway musical is alive and well, raking in millions with its blend of light music, song and dance routines and not-too-taxing drama. But its spiritual ancestor, the operetta, is an unfashionable beast. Offenbach's weighty Tales of Hoffmann gets produced many times more often than his most popular operetta (Orpheus in the Underworld) and the others languish far behind, which makes Jeremy Sams's new production and translation of La Périchole for Garsington Opera into an unusual event.
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| 28-Jan-2012 The London Coliseum | A stellar cast lights up ENO's Rosenkavalier |
 English National opera's first première of 2012 is a revival of David McVicar's 2008 production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, in splendid rococo period setting. They pulled out all the stops in casting: the four lead roles were all sung and acted wonderfully by English singers at the very top of their game. There were some big stars even in the smaller roles: having just seen Gwyn Hughes-Jones as Cavaradossi in Tosca, it was a surprise to see him filling in the tiny cameo role of the Italian opera singer with plenty of brio.
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