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A tender Shakespeare-inspired curio from English Touring Opera

Alys Mererid Roberts © Richard Hubert Smith
ETO kicks off its spring season with What Dreams May Come, a strange and moving staging of songs inspired by William Shakespeare.

Back to the Bard: Longborough's Fairy Queen

Rachel Speirs (Titania) © Matthew Williams-Ellis
Polly Graham's production turns semi-opera into “three-quarters opera”, to good effect.

Entertaining, not enchanting: The Golden Cockerel at ETO

Rimsky-Korsakov's anti-tsarist satirical fairytale makes for an entertaining rarity in ETO's spring tour.

A musical joy and a comical hoot: The Pirates of Penzance at OHP

John Savournin directs Opera Holland Park's end-of-term G&S romp.

At Wilton’s Music Hall, a ghost light for Britten’s ghost story

When the pandemic struck and theatres were locked down, OperaGlass Works' staging of The Turn of the Screw was an early casualty. Creative thinking turned the production into a film, with London's oldest music hall the set. 

Riotous journey to the Underworld

“Folies Bergère does Greek gods” is how director Martin Duncan describes Offenbach's Orphée aux enfers, and his production for Royal Academy Opera is enormous fun.