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Elin Pritchard leads a fine cast in Grange Park’s Don Carlo revival
Jo Davies’ 2016 staging is revived at the Theatre in the Woods, given a bold execution, led by a regal Elisabetta.
Exuberant revival of Opera North's Marriage of Figaro
Opera North's revival of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro directed by Jo Davies and conducted by Antony Hermus at Leeds Grand Theatre is still full of comic exuberance.
Carmen in Cardiff: WNO's powerful new production is a triumph
Virginie Verrez acted not with fire and ice but with gallic insouciance.
Don Carlo at Grange Park Opera: gripping and powerfully sung
Verdi's most political of operas brilliantly highlights the juxtaposition of personal desires and political imperatives
Opera North's Kiss me Kate arrives in London
Cole Porter's exuberant wordsmithery and his smash-and-grab appropriation of a dozen musical styles can hardly fail to entertain; Opera North give us four top class leads.
A high-spirited Don Giovanni at Nederlandse Reisopera
Director Jo Davies' staging of Mozart’s dramma giocoso for Nederlandse Reisopera is a high-spirited affair packed with humour, where the emphasis is decidedly more on giocoso than on the dramma.