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Mass at Donmar Warehouse: An easy win for a smugly liberal audience

3/5 This drama about a US school shooting has fine acting but can’t rise above hand-wringing

Evening Standard

The Railway Children opera review: 'Were kids this nice in the 80s?'

3/5 This version of the classic children’s tale does not entirely convince by setting it in the Eighties

Evening Standard

A Visit to Friends at Aldeburgh Festival: 'an opera with a totally new harmonic language'

4/5 Composer Colin Matthews has produced his first opera and sprung a huge surprise with this ambitious work at Aldeburgh Festival

Evening Standard

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The Grapes of Wrath review: Steinbeck’s hymn to human misery and endurance is epic but scrappy on stage

Cherry Jones is wry and warm in Carrie Cracknell’s revival of Steinbeck’s story about a sprawling clan of dustbowl refugees in the Depression era – but the elements of this three-hour production don’t always fully connect

The Independent UK

The Coronation of Poppea at Hackney Empire review: lust, selfishness, greed for power - how modern!

With this much wit and excellent performances, this new production will likely tighten up over the course of its tour

Evening Standard

The week in classical: Dialogues des Carmélites; Tristan und Isolde; LSO/Rattle – review

Poulenc’s shattering opera disturbs and confounds in Barrie Kosky’s new Glyndebourne production; Wagner meets the pre-Raphaelites at Grange Park Opera. Plus, a thrilling farewell from Simon Rattle

The Guardian - UK

Dialogues des Carmélites review – jeggings not wimples but Poulenc’s opera grips and haunts still

Barrie Kosky’s powerful new contemporary-set production is brought to life by a remarkable cast, led by Sally Matthews, and, in the pit, the LPO and Robin Ticciati bring heartbreaking delicacy and energy

The Guardian - UK

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Don Giovanni review – obsession, distress and danger in uneven new production

Mariame Clément’s thoughtful staging brings depth and insights but feels, at times, at odds with the score’s sensuality and demonic fire. In the pit, conductor Evan Rogister favours speed over dramatic weight.

The Guardian - UK

Lucrezia Borgia review – dark and atmospheric Donizetti from English Touring Opera

Eloise Lally straightforwardly tells this convoluted story of concealed identity ending in a mass poisoning

The Guardian - UK

The week in classical: glass human; An Anatomy of Melancholy; The Moon Hares review – opera for a lonely world

A new chamber opera explores isolation and connection, a John Dowland recital strikes a note of exquisite pain – and a community opera enchants with a modern fable

The Guardian - UK

La Bohème review – Death stalks Puccini’s lovers in a riveting Glyndebourne show

Floris Visser’s new production puts a dark spin on this story of doomed lovers – which only heightens the life-affirming vibrancy of the music

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