Tosca at Glyndebourne: Adds a few shocking twists of the knife 5/5 Ted Huffman’s new production at Glyndebourne relocates Puccini’s opera to the Fascist period Evening Standard · May 27
The Railway Children opera review: 'Were kids this nice in the 80s?' 3/5 This version of the classic children’s tale does not entirely convince by setting it in the Eighties Evening Standard · Nov 10, 2025
Parsifal at Glyndebourne review: Wagnerian drama at its most gripping 4/5 Jetske Mijnssen’s risky yet revelatory production of Wagner’s enigmatic opera centres compassion and critiques negative sexual stereotypes Evening Standard · May 19, 2025
Poulenc - Les mamelles de Tirésias/La voix humaine at Glyndebourne review: in the end, mesmerising This pairing of two works by the French composer moves from the easy-going to the lacerating, excellently managed by Robin Ticciati Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2022
Poulenc double bill review – from emotional hell to exploding breasts and 40,000 babies Pairing Poulenc’s one-acters La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias allows Laurent Pelly to explore opposite extremes of emotion and desire in this passionate, full-blooded and hilarious staging that is superbly sung and played. The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2022
La Bohème at Glyndebourne review: Bracing and deeply affecting staging of a work that still speaks to our age Floris Visser’s new production of Puccini’s tragic love story features some persuasive performances from its two leads Evening Standard · Jun 13, 2022
‘She’s badass’: how brick-throwing suffragette Ethel Smyth composed an opera to shake up Britain She was bisexual, served a prison sentence, and was so outraged by cuts to her opera The Wreckers that she stormed the orchestra pit. Finally, this summer, it will be heard as its extraordinary composer intended The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2022