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Time for a cut? Jonathan Miller's Barber of Seville returns to ENO

Charles Rice (Figaro) and Simon Bailey (Bartolo) © Clive Barda
Miller's production, running since 1987, is starting to show its ago, but an excellent performance from Anna Devin keeps English National Opera's latest revival moving.

New-minted rather than dusted down: ENO opens season with Satyagraha

Phelim McDermott's popular staging of Satyagraha, which verges on the lush and the voluptuous, is revived to open English National Opera's season.

A girl next door: La bohème at Dorset Opera Festival

It's not easy to imagine a freezing Parisian attic when you're in the middle of the rolling Dorset countryside in a baking summer, but Dorset Opera's excellent production of Puccini's La bohème is atmospheric enough to do so.

A razor sharp Barber of Seville revived at ENO

The latest revival of Jonathan Miller's The Barber of Seville has everything you could want; strong direction, a strong orchestral performance, and a cast that's universally strong. No close shaves there!

Grange Park Opera's inaugural Tosca

Woefully stiff acting lets down an otherwise excellent production; Joseph Calleja impresses in his role début as Cavaradossi.

A Barber as frothy as Figaro’s shaving foam

A wittily staged, but variably sung twelfth revival of Jonathan Miller's production at the Coliseum.