Opera
Digging for gold
La fanciulla del West, Opera Holland Park
Jolly boating weather
The Gondoliers, English Touring Opera, Hackney Empire
Mass hysteria
Sancta, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
Sexy sisters and holy hotties
Less Sister Simper, more Attila the Nun
A show to make you afraid of the dark
Opera is the repository of everything crass and depraved in what is laughingly called European “civilisation”
When Kurt was better without Bert
Musical theatre forgets all but the smashiest hits from its past
Vivid nostalgia
The Cunning Little Vixen, Irish National Opera, Hawk’s Well Theatre, Sligo
All’s fair in love
Così fan tutte, English National Opera, Coliseum
An austere opera
Boris Godunov, Royal Opera
Show me what love is
Don Giovanni, Flanders Opera, Antwerp
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