Despite the tidy small size of Belfast’s Grand Opera House, Northern Ireland Opera staged Strauss’ Salome, with its large orchestral forces, in succession to last season’s Flying Dutchman. As with the Wagner Opera, the daunting […]
Given how much I loved The Flying Dutchman I was expecting great things from NI Opera’s Macbeth. It had many virtues which I absolutely loved. The American Horror Story style witches straight out of a […]
Italian is so beautiful it should be compulsory at school. I had to study things like maths and physics instead, but after seeing Francesca Zambello’s La Boheme I’m going to knuckle down and learn the language of […]
The queue wound its way from the Hammersmith Apollo right down to the Riverside Studios. That’s a long way and could have been bad news as we only had ten minutes before the play started. […]
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