Egg-crackingly good fun: Pop Up Opera's touring production of Bizet's Le docteur Miracle

By Charlotte Valori, 11 March 2014

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Reviewed at Drink, Shop and Do, London on 10 March 2014

Bizet, Le Docteur Miracle

Pop-Up Opera

Darren Royston, Director

Aurelia Jonvaux, Laurette

Sarah Champion, Veronique

Rob Lomax, Silvio/Pasquin

Benjamin Seifert, Mayor

Elizabeth Challenger, Piano

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Charlotte Valori

Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.