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Brenton Spiteri (Tebaldo) and Samantha Price (Romeo) © Richard Hubert Smith

Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at English Touring Opera

By David Karlin, 22 February 2025

Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.

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London

22 Feb 2025

Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

By David Karlin

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

London

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

Lorna Maclean (Sāvitri) and Steven van der Linden (Satyavān) © Guildhall School | David Monteith-Hodge

London

Holst’s Sāvitri and Weir’s Blond Eckbert from the Guildhall School of Music

By David Truslove, 05 June 2023

Two accomplished performances bring emotional depth only intermittently, but show ample security of singing and playing.

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London

05 Jun 2023

Holst and Weir operas from the Guildhall School of Music

By David Truslove

London

A cunning little masterpiece from Rattle and the LSO

By Timmy Fisher, 27 June 2019

Messrs Rattle and Sellars bewitch the Barbican audience with a sumptuous rendition of Janáček's magnum opus.

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London

27 Jun 2019

A cunning little masterpiece from Rattle and the LSO

By Timmy Fisher