REVIEW: ‘Fast, filthy, frantic, fun, furious and beautifully sung’ WNO’s Rigoletto at New Theatre’s...
The Welsh National Opera production of Guiseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto at the New Theatre until tonight (October 26), is fast, filthy, frantic, fun and FURIOUS. Â
The focus in...
Tosca’s in town! Oxford Opera Company brings Puccini to Oxford Playhouse with world class...
Stuart Pendred of Oxford Opera Company can scarcely contain his excitement as he discusses the upcoming production of Puccini's Tosca at Oxford Playhouse on March 28-29.
Because not only does it...
REVIEW: ‘Waterperry Opera Festival has done it again with a Carmen that’s more feminist...
Waterperry Opera Festival, has done it again with a fabulous, furious, feisty, raunchy and confident production of Carmen.
Bizet’s 19th century opera is reputedly the world’s most frequently performed...
Join Oxford Opera’s Youth Company and take centre stage at the Sheldonian in their...
The hype behind the 'Kids Go Classical' concert at Oxford's Sheldonian is already revving up with an evening of some of the best choruses in opera from Verdi's...
REVIEW: ‘Everything I wanted from an opera’ English Touring Opera’s Rake’s Progress hits Oxford...
English Touring Opera brought The Rake’s Progress and Puccini’s Manon Lescaut to Oxford Playhouse this week. In her programme notes, Director Polly Graham appropriately describes Stravinsky’s ‘The Rake’s...
REVIEW: ‘Waterperry Opera Festival goes from strength to strength’ as Mozart’s Don Giovanni and...
Waterperry Opera Festival, now in its eighth year, goes from strength to strength, this year most evidently from its magnificent productions of Handel’s Semele and Mozart’s Don...
REVIEW: ‘A deserved sellout’ The Welsh National Opera brings Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice...
The Welsh National Opera proved their world class status this week with two very different works: Benjamin Britten’s Death in Venice and Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte -...
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 2025 – WHAT TO BOOK NOW! Oxfordshire’s best comedy, art,...
Got the January blues? Fear not, because we've collated a momentous guide of what to book now for 2025 taking in Oxfordshire's theatres, museums, festivals, concerts and...
REVIEW: ‘For a quintessential English summer evening of divine music in exquisite gardens, go to...
Be challenged, be delighted, be entranced, be well-entertained! For the perfect, quintessential English summer evening of divine music in exquisite gardens, go to this year’s Waterperry Opera Festival....
REVIEW: Tosca at Oxford Playhouse is ‘Oxford Opera Company at its best’ – the soloists...
Not long after it’s debut performance in 1900, critic Joseph Kerman pronounced the opera Tosca, ‘that shabby little shocker’. Tosca has therefore come a long way in...
