Alcina Glyndebourne Festival Opera, West Sussex ★★★★★ In Francesco Micheli’s new production of Handel’s Alcina, the lights go up on a little family whose dysfunctional demeanour sugg...Read More
Orpheus and Eurydice, ENO The most unforgettable stage debut I ever saw was on the evening of 11 September 2001. I was at the Coliseum, New York’s Twin Towers had just collapsed, and Manhattan was b...Read More
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, ENO, 1.3.18 ENO had two fine house productions to choose between, for their revival of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. They could have chosen Christopher A...Read More