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Jonathan Kent’s production returns with a traditional setting but a largely new cast
An adaptation of Patrick Hamilton’s bleak 1947 novel
Jonathan Kent’s production damps down the melodrama in Tennessee Williams’s play
A fine cast can’t quite tame Chekhov’s ungovernable earliest drama
Jonathan Kent’s full-blooded production is matched by full-hearted orchestral playing
Dame Judi Dench wins eighth award, the most for any performer
The Romanian soprano relishes her histrionics, but Samuel Youn’s Scarpia is lacklustre
A revelatory staging of Chekhov’s first three full-length plays
Kristine Opolais and Jonas Kaufmann give terrific performances in Jonathan Kent’s production
Young conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada rescues a messy staging of Mozart’s complex opera
Outside the Barbican, campaigners protested; inside, the music was impressive
The festival’s first ever Rameau opera is given a wildly over-the-top production by Jonathan Kent
Toby Stephens shines in this excellent revival of Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy
Director Jonathan Kent and conductor Laurence Cumming’s reprise their triumphant production of Purcell’s opera
English National Opera’s new staging of Wagner’s opera is all at sea and saved only by some high-wire singing
A dark, glinting treat led by Michael Ball
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