*** There was something slightly surreal about watching a nearly 30-year-old David Pountney production of Simon Boccanegra at Grange Park…
Natalya Romaniw, Kátya Kabanová, Grange Park
June 30, 2024***** 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…
Gwyn Hughes Jones in searing delight: Tristan und Isolde, Grange Park Opera
June 21, 2023***** Take singers in fabulous voice, the Gascoigne orchestra luxuriating in Wagner’s exquisite music and a visually and…
Gwyn Hughes Jones’ sublime Otello at Grange Park Opera
July 1, 2022The dark side dominates in David Alden’s sombre Otello for Grange Park Opera. While the tragedy is Otello and Desdemona,…
Houston.. Natalya Romaniw hasn’t got a problem.
December 30, 2021It is a very long way between lockdown in Cardiff and rehearsing in Texas for the opening of Houston Grand…
Stalin’s soft spot, Ivan the Terrible, Grange Park Opera
June 22, 2021After some high and lows during his tenure at Welsh National Opera, it is always with some slight trepidation I…