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Simply magnificent: A Little Night Music at Leeds Playhouse
As the UK continues to emerge from lockdown, Leeds Playhouse and Opera North stage Sondheim.
It's grim up North: a heartbreaking Katya Kabanova in Leeds
Tim Albery's production for Opera North is well sung and superbly acted, involving us deeply in Janáček's tragic family drama.
Opera North's Kiss me Kate arrives in London
Cole Porter's exuberant wordsmithery and his smash-and-grab appropriation of a dozen musical styles can hardly fail to entertain; Opera North give us four top class leads.
Witty and poignant tale of airport life at Scottish Opera
Jonathan Dove’s witty Flight at Scottish Opera is finely sung by a tight ensemble with standout performances from Jennifer France and James Laing.
Simply brilliant: Simplicius Simplicissimus
The first UK production of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1930s anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus is a musical and dramatic triumph, and as pertinent as ever
Inés de Castro: shocking and unmissable
James MacMillan has honed his first opera Inés de Castro into an unmissable evening: unspeakably gory but utterly thrilling.