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Simon Boccanegra review – Opera North’s staging of Verdi’s knotty score is a brooding triumph

The Leeds-based company stages Verdi’s dense political drama with a no-frills set-up that sees a stand-out performance from debut soprano Sara Cortolezzis

The Guardian - UK · May 26, 2025

Il Trittico review – an eloquent, gutsy outpouring of Puccini’s passion and pain

Welsh National Opera pull no emotional punches in this production of David McVicar’s staging of Puccini’s variously suspenseful, tragic and comic triptych

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2024

The week in classical: Marx in London!; The Barber of Seville; LSO/ Stutzmann; RPO/ Petrenko – review

A day in the life of the father of communism is full of laughs in Scottish Opera’s new production of Jonathan Dove’s buoyant farce. Elsewhere, notable house debuts at ENO, a Bruckner double bill and Rachmaninov to remember

The Guardian - UK · Feb 17, 2024

Tosca - ENO at the London Coliseum review: a thrilling vision of liberation

Christof Loy’s production is immediate and inspiring

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2022

Tosca review – gloriously sung and full of grand passion, this is gripping theatre

Christof Loy’s atmospheric staging of Puccini’s opera doesn’t always cohere, but its psychological probing proves powerful and Adam Smith is a tremendous Cavaradossi

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2022

Opera grandee reviving Mozart's Don Giovanni for a Scottish audience

MOZART’S ill-fated reprobate Don Giovanni is one of the great roles in the operatic canon. There are few men alive more familiar with the famous…

The National (Scotland) · May 8, 2022