Curtis Rogers

Oscar Wilde’s bubbling comedy becomes a surreal hard-hitting farce in Barry’s adaptation at Garsington

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2026 [4] – Gerald Barry, The Importance of Being Earnest: Soloists, Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 10.7.2026. (CR)

Garsington Opera’s The Importance of Being Earnest © Richard Hubert-Smith

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Garsington magically conceives of Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse as a sequel to its Orfeo

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2026 [3] – Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse: Soloists, The English Concert / Laurence Cummings (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 12.6.2026/ (CR)

Cecelia Hall as Penelope and Ed Lyon as Ulisse in Il ritorno d’Ulisse © Craig Fuller

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Through a glass darkly in Grange Park Opera’s gloomily convincing Don Carlo

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Grange Park Opera 2026 [1] – Verdi, Don Carlo: Soloists, Grange Park Chorus, Orchestra of English National Opera / Gianluca Marciano (conductor). Grange Park Opera, West Horsley, 6.6.2026. (CR)

Julian Close (The Grand Inquisitor) and Matthew Rose (Philip II) © Marc Brenner

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High comedy alongside the sharp bite of satire and irony in Garsington’s Der Rosenkavalier

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Garsington Opera 2026 [1] – Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier: Soloists, Garsington Opera and Children’s Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 30.5.2026. (CR) Der Rosenkavalier (1911) is an opera noted – sometimes reviled – for conjuring a particular time and place (18th-century Vienna during the reign of Maria Theresa). Audiences … Read more