| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 16-May-2013 Royal Academy of Music, Sir Jack Lyons Theatre | RAM Opera double bill: Dido and Aeneas and The Lighthouse |
 The Royal Academy of Music tonight presented the fruits of their latest postgraduate opera course with two short operas representing opposite ends of the musical timeline.
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| 26-Nov-2012 Carriageworks | Full house for Sydney Chamber Opera's innovative staging of Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse |
 Sydney Chamber Opera’s latest venture, a production of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ 1979 piece The Lighthouse, played to a packed Carriageworks theatre on Monday. In an era when the continued viability of classical music institutions is debated hotly, the fact that this new company can pull in the crowds for a challenging modernist work is cause for congratulation.Read full review... | |
| 11-Oct-2012 Royal Opera House: Linbury Studio Theatre | Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse at the Linbury Studio Theatre |
 With its small raised platform and steeply seated audience, the Linbury Studio Theatre was an auspicious venue for the English Touring Opera’s production of Peter Maxwell Davies’ chamber opera The Lighthouse (1979). The trelliswork of metal bars encircling the stalls and the bleak lighting effects gave this performance a befittingly industrial air. Truncated by a curved wall, the stage effectively drew spectators into the claustrophobic world of this maritime signal tower as well as its wider aura of isolation.
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| 8-Feb-2012 John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum | Boston Lyric Opera's The Lighthouse makes the dark come to life |
 In 1900, a relief ship arrived at a lighthouse in Northern Scotland's Orkney Islands, and discovered the three lightkeepers had gone missing without a trace. Peter Maxwell Davies' opera The Lighthouse takes this moment of history and explores the possibilities of what may have happened. It is a stormy ride of shifting identities, guilt and fear. Put all these elements in isolation, surrounded by black seas, and there's no knowing what will crawl out of the dark.
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