Thursday, March 31, 2016
For the past three weeks I have been working to develop the role of Prince Aiden in Mahogany Opera Group’s newest operatic adventure for children, The Rattler. I feel very lucky to be …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 11:40AMWednesday, February 17, 2016
A sold-out Barbican Hall welcomed Kodo for an anniversary performance and premiere in one. The Taiko Performing Arts Ensemble celebrates 35 years of worldwide touring since bursting onto the…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:26PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Collaboration in theatre only makes for stronger artistic productions. Through sharing ideas with others, engaging other artists and companies with unique skills sets, and recognising artist…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:26PMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Though composed after The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart’s dramma-giocoso masterpiece, Rossini’s Barber of Seville is the first in Beaumarchais trilogy of plays. It’s enduring …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:20AMTuesday, June 16, 2015
This, the first revival of Kasper Holten’s Don Giovanni, is a production full of visual spectacle. His ability to pull the spectator’s focus with lighting design and choreographe…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:49AMFriday, May 29, 2015
Puccini’s La Bohème is a mini masterpiece. It’s concise and relatively short by operatic standards, but also fulfils the criteria of some gorgeous arias and ensembles that in th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:03PMFriday, May 22, 2015
Bizet’s Carmen is one of the most well known pieces of classical music, let alone operas, of all time. Everyone has heard Escamillo’s ‘Toreador Song’, and with the ov…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:51PMTuesday, May 19, 2015
In contrast to Krol Roger, Kasper Holten’s production also running at ROH this season, everyone at least knows of Verdi’s La Traviata, and especially this production. It is one o…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:15PMSunday, May 17, 2015
Mike Leigh, celebrated film director and self-proclaimed Gilbert & Sullivan fan, leads English National Opera’s latest venture into the world of G&S. The Pirates of Penzance is…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:33PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
Szymanowski’s short but gripping opera Król Roger comes to the Royal Opera House for the first time. Composed in 1926, the work has only begun to be programmed by major opera houses …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:39AMThursday, April 23, 2015
Following a year of severe financial problems and with an inability to fill London’s largest theatre, it is perhaps unsurprising that English National Opera’s 2015/16 season is a…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:19PMTuesday, April 21, 2015
As the Rossini biographer Stendhal puts it, “Rossini is always amusing, Mozart never; Mozart is like a mistress who is always serious and often sad, but whose very sadness is a fascina…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:41PMFriday, April 17, 2015
It’s a change for me to see something at the Royal Opera House that is not an opera or a ballet, albeit in the Linbury Studio Theatre. First performed in Basel in 2013, King Size is th…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:14PMTuesday, April 7, 2015
In recent months, the new productions mounted by the Royal Opera House have come under some heavy criticism, and the much revived and traditional productions praised again and again – …
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:16PMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Pop-Up Opera presents one of Mozart’s lesser performed operas, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, in the unconventional setting of Peter Kime’s oriental antique store in Bloomsbury.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 07:01PMTuesday, March 3, 2015
Firstly, I was so glad to see so many children and young people at the performance, albeit brought by their wealthy parents. The Magic Flute still reigns as the first pick for an introductio…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 04:21PMMonday, February 16, 2015
Having survived weeks of great financial turmoil, and having now finally secured funding for the next couple of years (though under strict guidelines and restrictions) the English National O…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 06:14PMSunday, January 18, 2015
The Moscow City Ballet is a touring company mainly based in the UK, with a sister company focusing specifically on the continent named MCB Europe. Its aim is to bring ballet to the masses, w…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:14PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Un Ballo in Maschera is a tricky and confusing piece. It contains some of Verdi’s most sparkling and electric music but at the same time it’s wrapped around an awkward and melodr…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:38AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
The Suicide Girls Blackheart Burlesque show is quite a saucy affair. The Suicide Girls are an online community, featuring pin-up photography of alternative female models, and has a large fol…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:43PMSunday, December 14, 2014
Shakespeare’s plays, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, are more two halves of one play than two separate works in and of themselves. Part 1 feels just the beginning of the story, as Hal starts…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:00AMMonday, December 8, 2014
“Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!”, penned Rossini in a letter to a friend. I agree, to a certain extent. Wagner’s radical compositional con…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 05:37PMThursday, December 4, 2014
Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas have been a staple of the theatre repertoire – amateur and professional – since they were first performed at the end of the nineteenth century. S…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 03:58PMFriday, November 21, 2014
In a year that has seen funding in the arts cut across the board, it has become increasingly difficult to justify the £26 million annual Arts Council grant awarded to the Royal Opera House.…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 10:14AMSunday, November 16, 2014
The intention of immersive theatre is to transport the audience member into another world, not just as a passive bystander but as a part of the action, no matter how small. Site-specific and…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 12:38PMSaturday, October 25, 2014
The Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme gives an opportunity for talented singers at the beginning of their careers to immerse themselves in the life at ROH, as we…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 09:54AMTuesday, October 21, 2014
A lesser known opera in the Handelian repertoire, Ottone is by no mean the least. With an intriguing plot and dramatic and well-paced music, the opera stands up against any of his more popul…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 02:25PMMozart’s The Marriage of Figaro is undoubtedly a masterpiece of the operatic world; a piece of theatre so well crafted, comic and heartfelt, it’s almost impossible for it to be r…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 08:56AMSunday, October 19, 2014
I had never heard of Haydn’s Life on the Moon (Il mondo della luna), and after tonight’s performance by English Touring Opera I now see why. It is by no fault of ETO and it’…
SOURCE: A Younger Theatre at 01:49PM 
