Some enchanted evening: Puccini’s La rondine at Iford
From the opening party at Magda’s house, all fairylights and champagne, to the sultry Paris dive where students are later discovered toasting new-found love in absinthe, La rondine is no “poor…
Go down to the woods today: Pelléas et Mélisande at Grimeborn
“She was a poor, mysterious little creature, just like anyone else…” When the ageing Prince Golaud finds the beautiful Mélisande crying beside a well in the forest, he is instantly…