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ETO serve up classic comedy in The Barber of Seville

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Reviewed at Hackney Empire, London on 8 March 2012
Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia
Nicholas Sharratt, Count Almaviva
Kitty Whately, Rosina
Grant Doyle, Figaro
Cheryl Enever, Berta
Alan Fairs, Don Basilio
Andrew Slater, Dr Bartolo
Toby Girling, Fiorello
Paul McGrath, Conductor
Thomas Guthrie, Director
Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci
****1
English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast
***11
Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO
****1
A tender Shakespeare-inspired curio from English Touring Opera
***11
Theatrically poverty-stricken: ETO's Blond Eckbert
**111
ETO's The Snowmaiden melts the heart and gladdens the ears
****1
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