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Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani (Nemorino) and Emyr Wyn Jones (Dulcamara) © Richard Hubert Smith

Seaside shenanigans: English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

By Dominic Lowe, 27 September 2025

L'elisir d'amore may not immediately bring Skegness or Romney to mind, but ETO's new production works quite well there... just look out for the seagulls!

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London

27 Sep 2025

English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

By Dominic Lowe

Emyr Wyn Jones (Papageno) © Tristram Kenton

Leeds

Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived

By Richard Wilcocks, 27 September 2024

Conducted by Christoph Konz and directed by James Brining, Opera North’s revival of The Magic Flute remains an inventive reinterpretation of Mozart’s classic opera.

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Leeds

27 Sep 2024

Opera North’s gleeful Magic Flute revived

By Richard Wilcocks

Roland Wood (Creon) and Kitty Whately (Jocasta) © Jess Shurte

Edinburgh

Oedipus Rex: an immersive night at the museum at the Edinburgh International Festival

By David Smythe, 12 August 2024

Scottish Opera brings an immersive community production to the Edinburgh Festival directed by Roxana Haines, performed in the National Museum of Scotland.

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Edinburgh

12 Aug 2024

Oedipus Rex: an immersive night at the museum in Edinburgh

By David Smythe

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

London

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

Niamh O’Sullivan (Mirza) and Gabrielle Philiponet (Lalla-Roukh) © Clive Barda | ArenaPAL

Wexford

Riotous nonsense and royal nuptials: Lalla-Roukh at Wexford Festival Opera

By Roy Westbrook, 22 October 2022

Orpha Phelan has fun staging Félicien David’s opéra comique, moving the action from Kashmir and Samarkand to Leila O’Rourke’s Tea Emporium.

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Wexford

22 Oct 2022

Riotous nonsense and royal nuptials: Lalla-Roukh at Wexford

By Roy Westbrook

Glasgow

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

By David Smythe, 21 May 2022

Set in the sinister backstreets of Venice, this production from 2013 boasts strong singing all around and brisk, bright conducting by Stuart Stratford.

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Glasgow

21 May 2022

Sir Thomas Allen directs a delightful Don Giovanni at Scottish Opera

By David Smythe

West Horsley

Consumption or Covid? La bohème at Grange Park Opera

By Dominic Lowe, 12 June 2021

Grange Park Opera's revival of its 2015 production of Puccini's La bohème hits some high notes with a very contemporary feel and some excellent singing from its leading ladies.

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West Horsley

12 Jun 2021

Consumption or Covid? La bohème at Grange Park Opera

By Dominic Lowe

Leeds

Another sparkling revival of La bohème by Opera North

By Richard Wilcocks, 12 October 2019

Michael Barker-Craven directs and Renato Balsadonna conducts this successful revival of Puccini's La bohème in Opera North's production at Leeds Grand Theatre.

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Leeds

12 Oct 2019

Another sparkling revival of La bohème by Opera North

By Richard Wilcocks

Ivan Ludlow (Don Giovanni) and Claire Egan (Donna Anna) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Moreton-in-Marsh

“The Predator Punish'd”: Longborough's new Don Giovanni

By Roy Westbrook, 11 July 2019

Paula Sides as Donna Anna has an appealing sound throughout her range, a hint of spinto power, and gave the vocal performance of the night.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

11 Jul 2019

“The Predator Punish'd”: Longborough's new Don Giovanni

By Roy Westbrook

Manchester

Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi in Manchester double bill

By Leighton Jones, 09 December 2018

In two equally impressive performances, students from the RNCM star in these two one-act operas.

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Manchester

09 Dec 2018

Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi in Manchester double bill

By Leighton Jones

Moreton-in-Marsh

Who pulls the strings? Mozart's Magic Flute at Longborough

By Charlotte Valori, 15 July 2017

A fresh, yet traditional Magic Flute at Longborough uses puppetry to bring an atmosphere of fairytale onto the stage, with fine singing from a strong cast.

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Moreton-in-Marsh

15 Jul 2017

Mozart's Magic Flute at Longborough

By Charlotte Valori

London

Simply brilliant: Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus at Sadler’s Wells

By Matthew Rye, 11 November 2016

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

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London

11 Nov 2016

Simply brilliant: Simplicius Simplicissimus

By Matthew Rye