***** Grange Park Opera From the powerhouse of a season, it would again seem Grange Park Opera is the place…
Terfel triumphs in Grange Park Opera double bill
June 30, 2024***** Just when you think you have seen all there can be from Bryn Terfel along comes a new performance…
The Tempest, Cardiff Open AIr Festival
June 23, 2024**** It doesn’t quite feel like Summer in Cardiff until the Open Air Theatre Festival is on. Coming to Sophia…
Il Trittico, Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre
June 16, 2024Even for Puccini lovers, Il Trittico is somewhat of a curiosity. This collection of three one-act operas was debuted in 1918…
Cardiff-born tenor Sam Furness sings Nero at Grange Festival
June 15, 2024**** Grange Festival, HampshireIt would seem the contemporary version of achieving the feeling of absolute authority, power over everyone including…
Nye: theatre of hagiography
June 8, 2024A national icon, playing a national icon, about a national icon can make for some heavy adulation. I suspect some…
Nye, National Theatre and Wales Millennium Centre
May 22, 2024**** I have, as I am sure many other people also do, a deep-seated horror of hospitals. Hospitals are, as…
The Glass Menagerie, Everyman Theatre, Chapter
May 8, 2024The Glass Menagerie may well be one of the most popular of 20th century American plays, but it stands or falls…
House of Jojo, a dance and costume extravaganza, WMC
May 6, 2024It might seem odd to describe a chap who declares his show as Camp as Christmas as an old-fashioned boy…
Welsh National Opera, Peace and Passion, Wales Millennium Centre
April 22, 2024★★★ It could not have been more apt for this concert that Mozart was struggling to make…