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Geoff Brown

The singing made me seasick: ETO’s Don Giovanni reviewed

Geoff Brown 26 March 2016 9:00 am

One of these days I will probably see a production of Don Giovanni set in a research station in the…

Water torture: Aida on Sydney Harbour

Get me to an opera house: Aida On Sydney Harbour reviewed

Geoff Brown 12 September 2015 9:00 am

In anyone’s hands, Verdi’s Aida is not the easiest opera to raise up to greatness on the stage. How does…

Delibes’ Lakmé at Holland Park is visually soporific, but the singing keeps Geoff Brown awake

Geoff Brown 18 July 2015 9:00 am

These are nervous times at the opera. When should we expect the gratuitous rape scene? Will the director relocate the…

ENO’s Queen of Spades: I wanted to grab David Alden’s production by the neck and shake out its silly clutter

Geoff Brown 13 June 2015 9:00 am

The opera director David Alden has never been one to tread the straight and narrow. Something kinky would emerge, I’m…

Il Turco in Italia (Photo: Tristram Kenton)

Il turco in Italia, Royal Opera House, reviewed: bring sunglasses

Geoff Brown 25 April 2015 9:00 am

Big slats of orange, burning yellows, an Adriatic in electric blue: I wish I’d bought my sunglasses to the Royal…

Eloquent: Allan Clayton as Cassio in Otello

Is Anna Nicole’s absurd life worth our while? Not as much as Otello’s

Geoff Brown 20 September 2014 9:00 am

So how did London’s two big opera companies launch their new seasons last week? Not perhaps in the way you…

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