Review: The Three Musketeers, catch it this weekend…
It was an airless evening for ElevenOne’s first open-air summer show of The Three Musketeers. With Oxford’s ancient town wall as a fitting backdrop, in Ken Ludwig’s...
Review: Garsington Opera triumphs with Monterverdi’s Vespers of 1610
Monteverdi’s Vespersof 1610, which will bring Garsington Opera’s 30thanniversary season to a close, is an extraordinary work, its operatic qualities making it entirely in keeping with Garsington’s usual...
INTERVIEW: “The more the merrier” The Globe on Tour with woolly hats and ice...
Beau Holland is shaking the sand out of her suitcase when we speak, having just returned from Guernsey with The Globe On Tour.
Appearing in all three offerings: Twelfth...
Tinkling the ivories, Game of Queens and Peter Rabbit’s Musical Adventure. It’s all going...
Oxford will soon be reverberating to the tinkling of ivories as the annual Oxford Piano Festival, always a highlight of Oxford Philharmonic’s year, gets underway.
Review: Why Creation’s The Tempest almost sold out before it even began
“Welcome to Creation Cruises. We hope you enjoy your voyage,” said a crew member in an ‘Officer and a Gentlemen’ style white uniform.
We may have been on...
The Weimar Special with bows on….and feathers. SPUDS are back in true cabaret style!
Set against a background of extreme economic hardship in Weimar-era interwar Berlin and the rise of the far-right, a vibrant cultural scene, bursting with abundant queer, Jewish...
“All for one and one for all.” It’s open air theatre but not as...
The Three Musketeers are swashbuckling their way through Oxford this week with a dazzling array of sword-fighting, romance, humour and intrigue.
The script, adapted from the famous novel...
Fancy being a psychic spy? Then this is the show for you.
“I wanted to recreate the CIA’s experiments live by using the audience because it is so compelling on stage,” David Narayan says about his show The Psychic...
Shiver me timbres: Swashbuckling pirates abound at Opera Anywhere’s Cokethorpe summer festival
Opera Anywhere launches its new summer festival
Swashbuckling pirates and Japanese gentlemen are just some of the characters popping up at Cokethorpe School this weekend, discovers Nicola Lisle.
Opera...
Opera on punts, Bride & Gloom, a summer candlelit festival and so much more...
This weekend's classical music round-up
