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Gothic Opera brings powerful high drama to Donizetti in Battersea
Strong performances and powerful direction in Gothic Opera's premiere UK staging of Donizetti's Maria de Rudenz at Battersea Arts Centre.
Back to the Bard: Longborough's Fairy Queen
Polly Graham's production turns semi-opera into “three-quarters opera”, to good effect.
Don't look back: Longborough's new L'Orfeo
Olivia Fuchs directs Monteverdi's early opera in a sparse staging with a consistently fine cast.
Grief compellingly explored: Die tote Stadt at Longborough
An outstanding performance from Rachel Nicholls lights up Carmen Jakobi's compelling production of Korngold's exploration of grief.
Longborough's new Vixen a cunning, charming success
Janáček's woodland fairy tale proved a superb ensemble choice for the festival's Emerging Artists program.
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.