"Just my usual, please, Figaro": The Barber of Seville at Longborough

Gluck sought simplicity; Longborough Festival Opera delivers simplicity with a most enjoyable and engaging production of Orfeo

Jenůfa unfurls with chilling intensity at Longborough with the talented Lee Bisset in the title role. 

Opera Project’s production of Verdi’s famous and arguably most-loved opera La Traviata was not lacking in impact, considering it was a small-scale production. This being the second time I have seen an Opera Project production, I am certainly not dissuaded from seeing what they come up with next. La Traviata is a chamber opera, in a way, well suited to the smaller venue of St George’s Bristol.

Sofía Esparza y Airam Hernández defienden brillantemente la ópera de Gounod, en la producción de Ópera de Tenerife, con una cuidada dirección escénica de André Heller-Lopes.

Enmarcada entre suburbios y fronteras, Asmik Gregorian logra triunfar en su rol protagonista, sin poder salvar a su personaje, ahogada por la agresividad y provocación escénica.