by Alexandra Coghlan | Feb 15, 2026 | Drama, Music
John Findon as Peter Grimes in Opera North’s production, conducted by Garry Walker, Photo credit: James Glossop (c) 2026 Peter Grimes is an opera of place above all things. We don’t need to question what holds the loner-fisherman Grimes on the bleak Suffolk... 
by Guy Rickards | Oct 15, 2025 | Drama, Music
Eddie Wade and Caspar Singh celebrate Albert’s “coronation”, ENO’s Albert Herring 2025 © Genevieve Girling ENO / Daniel Cohen The Coliseum, London, October 13, 2025 Of Britten’s sixteen operas (if one counts his thoroughgoing 1948 adaptation of The... by Alexandra Coghlan | Jul 7, 2025 | Drama, Music
How many professional companies in the UK could currently muster a staging of Peter Grimes? You could count them on one hand with fingers to spare. Enter British Youth Opera and director Will Kerley with a concert-production of serious power, a showcase of young... 
by Colin Clarke | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Already, this year has seen Glyndebourne’s first Parsifal (click here for review); now, Opera Holland Park gives us its first Wagner, full stop. There’s a flying Dutchman in town. The staging is by Julia Burbach (who early in the 2025/6 season will direct... by Colin Clarke | May 27, 2025 | Music
Any opera house’s first Parsifal should be an occasion; for the hallowed setting of Glyndebourne, maybe doubly so. This was also director Jetske Mijnssen’s Glyndebourne debut; one of a plethora of house debuts: the singers taking Parsifal, Kundry and Klingsor also...