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Miryam Tomè (Angel), Kateřina Kněžíková (Kátya) and Rachael Wilson (Varvara) © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Marc Brenner

An overgrown path to cliché-ville: Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

By Mark Valencia, 03 August 2025

Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.

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Glyndebourne

03 Aug 2025

Glyndebourne revives Michieletto’s Kátya Kabanová

By Mark Valencia

Yolisa Ngwexana (The Blue Fairy) © David Monteith-Hodge | Photographise

Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

By Susannah Moody, 06 November 2023

From the spiritual conversion of a Medieval sex-worker, to the Sleeping Beauty tale reimagined, Guildhall stages a Respighi double-bill.

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London

06 Nov 2023

Sacred and profane in Guildhall School's Respighi double bill

By Susannah Moody

Michael Lafferty-Smith (Joseph), Jacob Harrison and Emyr Lloyd Jones (Guards) © David Monteith

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School

By Mark Valencia, 27 February 2023

Under Dominic Wheeler’s expert baton the musicians, all youthful if not downright young, give a spectacular account of a harrowing score.

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London

27 Feb 2023

Dead Man Walking given a triumphant staging by Guildhall School

By Mark Valencia