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La Bayadère, with Acosta, Nuñez, Kobayashi, Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, May 2013 15 May 2013 | 03:30 pm
This marvellous classical ballet by Petipa, in a three-act version by Makarova, provides scope for alternative portrayals of the main roles, and the ones given on May 14 by Acosta, Nuñez and Kobayashi...
Wozzeck, English National Opera, ENO, London Coliseum, May 2013 12 May 2013 | 04:44 pm
In Georg Büchner’s original play Woyzeck the eponymous character is a poor man discombobulated by his superiors, the Captain and the Doctor. They mock his inability to keep his common law wife Marie a...
Hansel and Gretel, Royal Ballet, ROH Linbury Studio, May 2013 9 May 2013 | 02:19 pm
Entering the Linbury Studio you go downstairs — the whole venue is underground, as is the witch’s kitchen in Liam Scarlett’s new dark version of Hansel and Gretel, where the children are tied up in a ...
Passion Play, Duke of York’s Theatre, May 2013 8 May 2013 | 02:01 pm
“My opinion is that most people come to grief for expecting too much of one another”, says Zoë Wanamaker’s Eleanor near the beginning of Peter Nichols’ 1981 play about marriage, adultery, and dare I s...
Die Zauberflöte, with Keenlyside, Staples, Bevan, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, May 2013 6 May 2013 | 01:40 pm
A new set of principals for Zauberflöte in May saw Simon Keenlyside as Papageno, Andrew Staples as Tamino, Sophie Bevan as Pamina, and Matthew Rose as Sarastro. Albina Shagimuratova, who also sang in ...
Don Carlo, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, May 2013 5 May 2013 | 04:23 pm
What a privilege to witness such an outstanding performance of opera, with the incomparable Jonas Kaufmann in the title role. You want to stay and savour the applause, to recall the extraordinary soli...
The Tempest, Globe Theatre, May 2012 4 May 2013 | 07:05 pm
This Jeremy Herrin production grabs our attention with a great bang at the start … followed by the storm at sea with passengers and crew swaying and falling on the tilting deck of a ship, despite the ...
English National Opera, 2013/14 Season Preview 2 May 2013 | 12:36 pm
The list of operas for the ENO 2013/14 Season provides an eclectic array of work including ten new productions. Fidelio: opens 25 September 2013 for 7 performances. New production by Calixto Bieito (c...
The Breadwinner, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, April 2013 21 Apr 2013 | 12:33 pm
People are trapped by the expectations of society, and it can take a dramatic rupture from convention to move on with your life. This was something Somerset Maugham dealt with in his 1916 novel The Mo...
The Breadwinner, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, April 2013 21 Apr 2013 | 12:33 pm
People are trapped by the expectations of society, and it can take a dramatic rupture from convention to move on with your life. This was something Somerset Maugham dealt with in his 1916 novel The Mo...
