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Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival
Stephen Medcalf directs a coherent staging of Mozart’s opera seria in which Idomeneo’s inner demons are to be battled.
Revolutionary jungle fever: Verdi's Alzira in Buxton
A spirited account of Verdi's early opera in its first professional UK staging, nowhere near as “ugly” as Verdi would have had us believe.
Paradise reduced: New Sussex Opera's Delius
Despite a much reduced orchestra and a slightly awkward staging, New Sussex Opera's production of Delius's A Village Romeo and Juliet still gave us the chance to wallow in a glorious late-Romantic score.