Performer: Elisabetta Fiorillo

No hippos in tutus for The Dance of the Hours, but panto frolics abound in Stephen Madcalf's staging in the idyllic Theatre in the Woods. 

Grange Park Opera’s enjoyable new production of Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera looks a little homespun on stage, but has plenty of musical compensations.

The magnificent Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires welcomed a full house to the production of Falstaff starring Ambrogio Maestri, the world’s primary portrayer of the pompous knight. Unfortunately, one singer does not an opera make.