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Reviews of Opera in London's West End and Off-West End

Faust AlbertaLondon puts on some fabulous opera, whether at iconic venues such as the Royal Opera House, London Coliseum or smaller, more intimate venues. Read one of the latest reviews or use the search button to find and view one of our previous reviews. We use a star rating system on our site.
Faust, Alberta – Opera by Simone Spagnolo
Faust Alberta is the second Time Zone production by Pamela Schermann at the Bridewell Theatre in the “Opera in the City” festival following the excellent Orfeo and Euridice. It is an original work by the composer Simone Spagnolo and this was its world premiere. A “Nameless Man” is in a remote cabin surrounded by frozen snowfields. He is not identified even to himself. The music is initially eerie – tonal and melodic but subtle and understated. The Man is indulging in self-analysis and a search for identity. He feels trapped and seeks an explanation. The musical rhythms strengthen to reinforce his existential dilemma and we become aware that this is to be an operatic monologue with some spoken words but mostly sung.
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Vivaldi meets Werther: Four Seasons at the Bridewell Theatre

August 28, 2019 Last updated: August 28, 2019 2:24 pm By John Groves

Vivaldi meets Werther: Four Seasons

Vivaldi’s four violin concerti depicting Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, which we know collectively as ‘The Four Seasons’ are probably some of the most well-known music composed in the early eighteenth century. Pamela Schermann, the director, had the idea of performing them using five-string players and what sounded like an electric piano, breaking up the sequence of twelve descriptive movements with excerpts from Goethe’s novel ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ recited by an actor, and showing … [Read more...]

Review of Man of La Mancha at The London Coliseum

May 22, 2019 Last updated: October 7, 2019 6:51 pm By Mary Beer

Cassidy Janson (Aldonza) with Man of La Mancha company - Photo by Manuel Harlan.

The Oxford English Dictionary gives the word ‘quixotic’ (derived from that most legendary man from La Mancha) two almost opposing definitions. The Don Quixote persona who is a figment of Alonso Quijana’s imagination can be lauded as ‘extremely idealistic’ or condemned as ‘unrealistic and impractical’. So too, can director Lonny Price’s and producers Michael Linnit and Michael Grade’s revival of the 1965 multi-Tony-Award-winning musical The Man of La Mancha which is making its first London … [Read more...]

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Man of La Mancha at London Coliseum | Review

May 1, 2019 Last updated: October 7, 2019 7:09 pm By John Groves

Man of La Mancha Company by Manuel Harlan.

Man of La Mancha, the 1965 musical version of the sixteenth century Spanish novelist Cervantes’ story of Don Quixote, who imagines he is a mediaeval knight errant, has not been seen in London’s West End since 1969, so this new English National Opera production has been one of the hottest tickets in London this Spring. Musically, it is superb, in no small part owing to the ever-excellent English National Opera Orchestra using new orchestrations by David White who also conducts with the … [Read more...]

Shaw Goes Wilde presented by Pegasus Opera Company

April 13, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 6:18 pm By Elaine Chapman

Oliver Brignall as Lord Reginald Fitzambey; Alison Buchanan as Strega Thundridge in George Bernard Shaw’s The Music Cure part of ‘Shaw Goes Wilde’

Pegasus Opera Company working in collaboration with Hagemann-Rosenthal Associates presents Shaw goes Wilde: comprising of two one-act operas based on Bernard Shaw's The Music Cure and Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose. Performed in the newly opened Susie Sainsbury Theatre in the Royal Academy of Music. A state of the art theatre boasting amazing acoustics, comfortable seats and everything you expect to find in a luxury theatre just on a smaller scale. The opening first act based … [Read more...]

Bizet’s Carmen at Kings Head Theatre | Review

February 14, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 7:04 pm By Chris Omaweng

(c) Nick Rutter. From left to right Dan D Souza (Escamillio), Ellie Edmonds (Carmen).

It’s unmistakably Georges Bizet’s Carmen, as the overture and the piano introductions to the opera numbers keep reminding the audience. The anomaly of traditional productions being a French opera set in Spain but sung in Italian (or indeed in English) is commented on in this contemporary makeover, if only as a vehicle to keep in the Toreador Song, perhaps one of the most famous arias in opera. The result is rather comical, with Escamillo (Dan D’Souza) stumbling over words in a karaoke session (I … [Read more...]

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