| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Feb-2013 Theatre Royal | Splendid singing in Scottish Opera's quirky production of Werther |
 The world of opera can sometimes be hard for the newcomer to love as there are often fiendishly complicated and frequently unbelievable plots to get to grips with. Jules Massenet’s opera Werther is happily none of these: it is a straightforward story of unrequited love.
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| 27-Oct-2012 Theatre Royal | Scottish Opera's steampunk Magic Flute delights |
 Following acclaimed productions at Scottish Opera of The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, recently revived, Thomas Allen returns to Glasgow to direct The Magic Flute. Taking inspiration from the city’s famed boisterous music hall history, the collections of William Hunter and his own childhood images of the shipyards on the Wear, Allen’s theme is Victorian industrial with a modern twist of steampunk.
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| 7-Jul-2012 Buxton Opera House | Strauss' Intermezzo at Buxton Festival |
 Buxton, a small spa town in Derbyshire, has been home to one of the most imaginative and important festivals in Britain for over thirty years. In the intimate setting of the modestly sized opera house, the festival presents a staggering programme of literature, plays, opera and recitals every summer, remaining one of the principal hotspots in the country to hear both the familiar and the forgotten.
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| 17-Apr-2012 Hampstead Theatre | Rihm's Jakob Lenz at Hampstead Theatre: a Testament to Modern Opera |
 In the cosy confines of a packed Hampstead Theatre ENO’s English adaptation of Jacob Lenz produced an exciting, entertaining and emotionally draining 70 minutes of opera. Premiered in 1979 this is Rihm’s account of Sturm und Drang writer Jakob Lenz’s descent into madness. Friends with Goethe, Lenz was part of the romantic ‘set’ whose decline into madness is documented in Georg Büchner’s novella Lenz. The opera depicts his stay in a mountain retreat where his hallucinations, fantasies and the voices he hears lead him to attempt suicide no fewer than three times.Read full review... | |
