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Strong performances and powerful direction in Gothic Opera's premiere UK staging of Donizetti's Maria de Rudenz at Battersea Arts Centre.

Polly Graham's production turns semi-opera into “three-quarters opera”, to good effect.

Olivia Fuchs directs Monteverdi's early opera in a sparse staging with a consistently fine cast. 

An outstanding performance from Rachel Nicholls lights up Carmen Jakobi's compelling production of Korngold's exploration of grief.

Janáček's woodland fairy tale proved a superb ensemble choice for the festival's Emerging Artists program.

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.

The first UK production of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1930s anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus is a musical and dramatic triumph, and as pertinent as ever