Opera North's ongoing Ring isn't taking up much of the chorus's time, which presumably is one of the reasons that many of its members have decamped half a mile east to collaborate with the West Yorkshire Playhouse in an eye-popping new staging of Sondheim's Into The Woods. That opera companies can and should stage Sondheim is vindicated by this production: the musical values are superb, my only niggle being that Jame…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:27AM on June 9, 2016