A very wicked village: Britten’s Albert Herring
“Scorn the sweetmeats of temptation!”, warns Lady Billows, as the village of Loxford gathers to crown its May King – a King, because so many village maidens have failed to…
“Scorn the sweetmeats of temptation!”, warns Lady Billows, as the village of Loxford gathers to crown its May King – a King, because so many village maidens have failed to…
The Royal College of Music, with an enthusiastic and talented student cast, gave Giove in Argo a dramatic rebirth at the Britten Theatre. It was impossible not to enjoy the sheer…
In this exuberant production at the Royal College of Music, directed by Donald Maxwell and Linda Ormiston and updated to Berlusconi’s Bunga Bunga Italy of the 1990s, Rossini’s comic opera…
This joyous production by English Touring Opera makes the most of the music, the characters, and the alternately hilarious and unsettling plot of Handel’s early masterpiece. Agrippina is an opera of…