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Swan cruise: Nelsons navigates a musically impressive Lohengrin at Covent Garden

Wagner: Lohengrin *** Royal Opera, 7th June 2018 You wait ages for a swan, then a flock descends. Swiftly following the debut of Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake, here glides in David Alden’s new staging of Wagner’s Lohengrin, the first at Covent Garden … Continue reading

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Tragedy undermined: Peter Brook’s La Tragédie de Carmen

Bizet: La Tragédie de Carmen ** Royal Opera, Wilton’s Music Hall, 4th November 2017 The distressed walls of Wilton’s Music Hall, in London’s East End, are not dissimilar to the interior of Les Bouffes du Nord, the Parisian theatre where, … Continue reading

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