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Britten's cinderella opera? Owen Wingrave from Grange Park Opera
Conceived for television and first seen on BBC2 in May 1971, Owen Wingrave should lend itself to creative staging and the small screen. Does this new film convince?
Ambiguity rules in New Zealand Opera's Turn of the Screw
Astonishingly vivid performances from an ensemble cast made it one of the most outstanding of their recent productions, an auspicious sign as de Mallet Burgess takes over the General Directorship of the company.
A potent concoction: Macbeth is ETO's hit of the season
A fine cast, orchestra and production make English Touring Opera's new production of Verdi's Macbeth a must see.
Monsters of the mind: Idomeneo at the Buxton Festival
Stephen Medcalf directs a coherent staging of Mozart’s opera seria in which Idomeneo’s inner demons are to be battled.
For teenage kicks: Mozart's Lucio Silla at Buxton International Festival
The fashion for reviving Mozart's teenage operas brings a vocally dazzling production of Lucio Silla to Buxton, nevertheless hampered by the work's own lack of believable drama and some fairly flat staging.
Rossini’s Barber falls flat at Covent Garden
For the latest revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's candy-striped production, the Royal Opera serves up the operatic equivalent of stodgy semolina.