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Masks and marriages: Anna Bolena at Longborough Opera Festival
Any occasion to see Donizetti's first big success is to be welcomed. The Longborough Festival's new production of Anna Bolena gives us a Tudor court in terror of a brutish, Henry VIII as he seeks to supplant Anne Boleyn with Jane Seymour.
Country-house Ball: Verdi at Grange Park Opera
Grange Park Opera’s enjoyable new production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera looks a little homespun on stage, but has plenty of musical compensations.
Eccentric circles: a youthful take from BYO
British Youth Opera revives a forgotten operatic entertainment from the 1960s with flair and professionalism.