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An immaculately executed Bartered Bride at Garsington
Natalya Romaniw is a natural as our maligned heroine: Paul Curran creates staging of bewildering comic complexity and pulls it off with panache.
Last Rites: Puccini meets Stravinsky in Leeds
A daring double bill from Opera North and Phoenix Dance Theatre pairs Jeanguy Saintus' new choreography for The Rite of Spring with a revival of Christopher Alden's production of Gianni Schicchi.
Pastel-perfect hell: To See The Invisible
Emily Howard's new opera, an Aldeburgh Festival commission, takes an ambitiously modernist approach to a dystopian story of loneliness: a tough, but thought-provoking work.
More than a tear-jerker with a social conscience
A convincing revival for Opera North's Madama Butterfly at Leeds Grand Theatre directed by Tim Albery and conducted by Martin Pickard.
A buoyant revival of Billy Budd
At the opera’s great climaxes Suffolk’s famous wood-and-brick building could barely contain it.
Opera North's intensely dramatic Billy Budd
Opera North's production of Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd, directed by Orpha Phelan, is a tense psychological drama which puts the emphasis on issues of democracy and attitudes to dictatorship.