Amanda Holloway reviews opera across Britain for The Stage and Opera magazine, as well as contributing ballet and opera interviews to Royal Opera House programmes, BBC Music Magazine and the Guardian.
Sarah Angliss’ deceptively graceful music can’t sugar this grisly tale of the nearly 8ft tall Charles Byrne and an unscrupulous surgeon, which opens the Aldeburgh Festival 2023
Patrice Caurier and Moshe Leiser’s classy revival of this 2005 production, starring Andrzej Filończyk, Bryn Terfel and Aigul Akhmetshina, looks and sounds as fresh as ever