Allison Cook — Reviews

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Feb 8

Feb 8 Alice's Adventures Under Ground – Royal Opera House

David Buchler

Royal Opera House

The stage was set, the audience ready, with plenty of children watching in the matinee performance, all ready in anticipation of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, written by the Irish Composer Gerald Barry, with staging by Anthony McDonald.

Sep 28

Sep 28 Salome by the English National Opera

David Buchler

English National Opera

For those opera lovers expecting a standard fayre Salome, this production is not for you.

Mar 14

Mar 14 From the House of the Dead at the Royal Opera House

David Buchler

Royal Opera House

Gosh, how depressing! Leos Janacek wrote his opera, From the House of the Dead, in the year of his death in 1928. The opera is effectively a play within a play, set in a Siberian prison, where individual prisoners narrate episodes of their lives.