On Opera
Ritual and redemption
Parsifal, Ghent Opera House
Hot cinders
Cinderella, English National Opera
Tosca without terror
Tosca, Royal Opera
Love among the sandwiches
Cesare, Somerset Opera, Frome Memorial Theatre
The weird and wonderful fringe
Seek delights in vain at our main companies, but the fringe lets them gambol free
Mad for it
A review of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Opera Holland Park
Curiously inconsequential
Rodelinda, at Garsington Opera, lacks real attention to character or relationship
Bonfire of the vanities
The Covent Garden Semele uses the bad-faith tricks of the director’s shabby trade
Wagner saga just keeps on giving
Richard Wagner, it appears, had Nazism thrust upon him
Bum deal
The Queen of Spades, Garsington
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