Gilbert and Sullivan’s Gondoliers at their most joyously exuberant
Of all the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, The Gondoliers is arguably the most exuberant, the most musically inventive, and even the most topically satirical. Scottish Opera’s new…
La Bohème, English Touring Opera review: Puccini’s reliable favourite rises above the routine
It’s two years since English Touring Opera last went on the road with a full-scale programme. Like everything else, it was cut short by the lockdown of…
Jack and the Beanstalk, Hackney Empire: badinage and heaving bosoms in a show that’s full of beans
This time last year the sky fell in on the British panto. At the start of last December, with tiers before Christmas, Hackney Empire, one of the…