by Guy Rickards | Feb 8, 2025 | Drama, Music
David Ireland and Mary Bevan, ENO’s The Marriage of Figaro 2025 (c) Zoe Martin The Coliseum, English National Opera / Ainārs Rubiķis The simplest solutions are often the best, especially when dealing with something rather convoluted, as in the case of The... 
by Fiona Hook | Feb 2, 2022 | Music, Uncategorized
I’m an opera critic. I’m not there to enjoy myself. So I always feel a little fraudulent when a trip to the opera presents an evening of pure pleasure. David McVicar’s 2006 staging of Figaro, the opera’s 1786 setting transposed to a country house in... 
by Amanda Holloway | Oct 1, 2019 | Music
A popular venue for a long weekend, Iceland offers outdoor activities centred around glaciers, ice caves and volcanos. Home of Björk and Sigur Rós, the country is known for its cool pop, rock and electronic music scene. But it also supports an internationally known...