Instrument: Video Artist

I felt that the choreography as performed by these excellent dancers was enough to carry the story without such excessive use of text and animation

The COC revival of its 2016 production of Le nozze di Figaro is still rooted in Claus Guth’s gloomy Scandinavia but it’s lightened up to become much sexier and funnier.

A top-class line-up of international soloists produce an accomplished and polished semi-staging for the company's tour. 

This irresistible Nutcracker is a reliable delight in an increasingly unreliable world.

Ildar Abdrazakov and Ain Anger excel in the confrontation of tsar and historian; Kaspar Holten's safe but effective staging focuses on the relentless march of history.

Schubert knew all about existentialism long before the term was coined. It is there in his music and most poignantly so in Winterreise. Allan Clayton treads movingly in the composer's path.