Arts REVIEW: Marriage of Figaro This second outing of Fiona Shaw’s Figaro has mellowed and matured in the few years since the last time it graced the ENO stage. The wit is still there, the endless movement and r revolving stage allowing us insight and side squints into the upstairs/downstairs business of this grand space and the s By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: The Girl of the Golden West: ENO The ENO’s revival of this unfamiliar Puccini opera has successfully shown us the honest human story in this adolescent melodrama without trashing its very sweet and delicate heart. it can be so easy to mock, so difficult to produce free of irony, but the story is deftly handled here. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Xerxes at ENO This is a great production, full of froth and fizz and presenting a non-stop evening of entertainment, with as many musical highpoint as comedic moments and well worth going along to the ENO to see this gorgeous revival. By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Otello at ENO This was a stark and emotionally harrowing production and one of the most thrilling and upsetting Otellos I’ve seen, but the utterly monstrous and slithering compellingness of Summers’ Iago is it’s real triumph. Perhpas this was Alders point all along, to redirect us into the dark heart of this Oper By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Thebans at ENO This was a bold, innovative and really rather smart production which gripped from its opening moments until the last anguished pure note. By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts REVIEW: Rodelinda: ENO Handel’s epic story of love, power and mistaken identity is a triumph, but not an easy one to present to the modern audience, but the singing is exquisite; tonight the ENO live up to their hype as the House of Handel. Book now! By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts The Magic Flute: ENO : Review From its clever opening to the dramatic close this new production directed by Simon McBurney’s of Complicite caught the attention of the audience and kept it held close like one of the delightful flapping paper birds that followed Papageno around. The setting feels organically oppressive, set in som By Eric Page • 4 min read
