Falstaff, Garsington Opera at Wormsley In three weeks’ time the Royal Opera will revive its version of Falstaff which, with Bryn Terfel in the title role, will doubtless sell out. But in Garsingtonâ...Read More
Die Zauberflöte, Garsington Opera at Wormsley When the lights go up on Netia Jones’s production of Die Zauberflöte, we see that she’s turned the stage into a near-simulacrum of the formal garde...Read More
The most amazing thing about Richard Strauss’s final opera is when and where it was first performed: Munich in 1942, when those who turned up to see it did so despite the risk of being caught in an ...Read More