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Month: June 2022

A powerful and convincing Butterfly at the ROH

Posted on June 15, 2022June 16, 2022 by Michael Church
Madama Butterfly Royal Opera House, London, ★★★★ Nobody could accuse Covent Garden of backwardness in virtue-signalling. They recently announced plans for trigger-warnings when murder, rape, a... Read More

From Glyndebourne a weird Boheme, with brilliant principals

Posted on June 12, 2022June 15, 2022 by Michael Church
  La bohème Glyndebourne Festival Opera,  ★★★★ It seems to matter more to Floris Visser that an audience should recognise his personal imprint, than whether he’s served a work as it d... Read More

At Garsington, the ‘Orfeo’ of our dreams, and a brilliantly revived ‘Cosi’

Posted on June 3, 2022June 6, 2022 by Michael Church
Orfeo/Cosi fan tutte Garsington Opera, Wormsley The director and designer of Garsington’s new Orfeo – John Caird and Robert Jones – invite their audience to get involved in the ‘immersive arti... Read More

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