Masters of the Queens Music at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Pushing the envelope on the traditional concert format, music group pianocircus performed dynamic works by composers Graham Fitkin and Colin Riley—including the world première of Riley’s Double Trio—in the concert Trilogies, inviting the audience to partake in the strange, yet beautiful world of contemporary classical music.

It is clear that these women are already ripe for plucking even before Don Alfonso unleashes his dastardly plan.

An embarrassingly trite libretto proves unsalvageable, even with a committed cast of singers.

A great return appearance for English Touring Opera's Puccini double bill opening its spring tour at the Hackney Empire.

Superb singing and skilful acting make a good case for Radamisto in a conceptually ambitious new production which, while not entirely successful, is well worth seeing. 

In the first of its opera productions this season, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama presented an interesting combination of Stravinsky's odd little comedy, Mavra and Tchaikovsky's tale of the blind princess, Iolanta.