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December 2019

4 December

Purposeless silliness: Coppélia at the ROH

November 2019

27 November	Good production, great play: Death of a Salesman at the Piccadilly
25 November	Attack of the gondola: Death in Venice at the ROH
22 November	Queer beauty: Les Beaux dormants at the ROH

October 2019

25 October	More to be said: Lungs at the Old Vic
18 October	Magnificent: The Mask of Orpheus at ENO
16 October	Struggles with Schumann: Zauberland at the ROH
14 October	Disposable: Don Pasquale at the ROH
11 October	What delights: Agrippina at the ROH
8 October	Mozart elation: Don Giovanni at the ROH
4 October	Fascinating nonsense: The Intelligence Park at the Linbury
1 October	Orpheus surprise: Orpheus and Eurydice at ENO

September 2019

11 September	Super-slick: A Very Expensive Poison at the Old Vic
4 September	What theatre can be: The Doctor at the Almeida

August 2019

14 August	Vile: Bitter Wheat at the Garrick Theatre
7 August	A come-down: Rusalka at Glyndebourne
1 August	Worth it: Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth

July 2019

23 July	Surface-level: Sarah Connolly at the Wigmore
16 July	The ultimate test: Carmen at the ROH
15 July	Decadence: The Night of the Iguana at the Noël Coward Theatre
13 July	Baffled rhapsody: Vox Luminis sings Bach Motets at the Wigmore
12 July	Neither heaven nor hell: Le nozze di Figaro at the ROH
9 July	Sweet dreams: A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Bridge Theatre
6 July	Nearly electric: La Damnation de Faust at Glyndebourne
3 July	Sometimes you need a church: Noye’s Fludde at Theatre Royal
2 July	No emperor: Peter Gynt at the NT

June 2019

27 June	Russian colour: Three Sisters by Maly Drama Theatre
22 June	Balance of camp: The Mother at QEH
20 June	Hollowed out: Boris Godunov at ROH

May 2019

31 May	Not bothered: Michael Tilson Thomas and the LSO play Cage, Beethoven and Bartók
24 May	A graceful coup: Rosmersholm at Duke of York’s
22 May	Top circus act: Donnerstag aus Licht with Le Balcon
12 May	Herculean effort: Paul Bunyan at Ally Pally
9 May	Sound: Within the Golden Hour/Medusa/Flight Pattern at the ROH
7 May	A weak argument: Faust at the ROH
3 May	Certainly earnest: Notos Quartett at the Wigmore
2 May	A/B Test: LSO play Birtwistle and Adams at the Barbican

April 2019

24 April	Bloody marvellous (mostly): Billy Budd at the ROH
12 April	No Lulu: Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel at ENO
12 April	Such helpful sheep: She Persisted by ENB
7 April	Distant bodies: JACK Quartet plays Elliott Carter
2 April	Take me back to the bubble!: The Book of Mormon

March 2019

29 March	Triumph no.2: Berenice at the ROH
27 March	Fish out of water: Berberian Sound Studio at the Donmar Warehouse
26 March	Free art: Silver Screens/Steel Strings by Zubin Kanga
25 March	Potaetry: Famished at Café OTO
24 March	Wild horses: La forza del destino at the ROH
19 March	What a whopper: Richard III at Alexandra Palace Theatre
17 March	Get to the Gershwin: Barabara Hannigan and the LSO at the Barbican
16 March	Boring sandwich, great bread: Tartuffe at the National Theatre
12 March	Mild Miller: The Price at Wyndham’s Theatre
6 March	Quite a programme: George Benjamin and Ensemble Modern at the Roundhouse
5 March	Up to 11: George Benjamin and Ensemble Modern at the Wigmore Hall

February 2019

27 February	Love it love it love it: The Monstrous Child at ROH
23 February	No more: Akhnaten at ENO
22 February	A worthy endeavour: Richard II at Sam Wanamaker Theatre
14 February	Fear the bull of silliness: Edward II at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
12 February	Brittle brilliance: Leon McCawley plays Beethoven at the Wigmore
10 February	Madness: La Damnation de Faust with the Hallé
6 February	Man cannot live on baths alone: Katya Kabanova at the ROH
2 February	Frank entertainment: When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other at the NT
1 February	Could it have been different?: The Queen of Spades at the ROH

January 2019

19 January	Sound congealed: Rebecca Saunders at the QEH
18 January	A fistful of feathers: Asphodel Meadows / The Two Pigeons at the ROH
10 January	A life of its own: The Queen of Spades at the ROH
9 January	A little less conversation: Abrahamsen and Sibelius with LSO
7 January	It’s ‘Recital at Lunch’ to you: Susana Gaspar and Marek Ruszczynski at the ROH
5 January	Why bother?: Richard II at the Almeida