Great night at English National Opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Akhnaten at London Coliseum Philip Grass’s extraordinary, monumental yet minimalist masterpiece is given an outstanding mythical, sensory and ballsy production by EN ...
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ENO stages its first ever production of Bellini’s much admired but rarely staged bel canto opera
Robert Tanitch reviews ENO’s Norma at London Coliseum, WC2 Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), who died young of tuberculosis, said, “Opera must make people weep, feel horrified, die through singing.” Norma ...
Patrick Marber cuts Turgenev’s “A Month in the Country” to three days
Robert Tanitch reviews Three Days in the Country at National Theatre/Lyttelton The play is well acted by a fine ensemble and I much enjoyed my evening; though I should, I have to admit, much preferred ...
Powerful. Moving. Beautiful.
Eileen Caiger Gray reviews Northern Ballet’s Madame Butterfly with Perpetuum Mobile, Doncaster May 21st 2015 In Madame Butterfly, as ever, Northern Ballet (recently crowned Europe’s Best Dance Company ...