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Giulio Cesare review – nightmarish take on Handel has snakes, sadism and a mummy

David Alden’s blackly comic Kafkaesque production has a strong cast whose lively performances were not always matched by the Early Opera Company in the pit

The Guardian - UK · Jun 22

Katya Kabanova review – Romaniw soars in cogent take on Janáček’s tragedy

Natalya Romaniw is touching as the heroine trapped in a loveless marriage, while Susan Bullock is chilling as her monstrous mother-in-law in David Alden’s staging

The Guardian - UK · Jun 17, 2024

Jenůfa review – Alden’s harrowing staging remains a formidable piece of theatre

Jennifer Davis in the title role and Susan Bullock as Kostelnička are both outstanding in Janáček’s unremittingly intense tale relocated to a drab industrial town in post-communist Europe

The Guardian - UK · Mar 14, 2024

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Peter Grimes review – grim but compelling, Alden’s nightmarish staging returns to Coliseum

Everyone is traumatised in David Alden’s 2009 production of Britten’s opera. With Gwyn Hughes Jones and Elizabeth Llewellyn leading a standout cast, this is an evening of beauty and terror

The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2023

The week in classical: Lohengrin; The Paradis Files

An exemplary revival brings David Alden’s 2018 Wagner production into sharp focus. And an overlooked contemporary of Mozart’s is celebrated by Errollyn Wallen

The Guardian - UK · Apr 23, 2022

Lohengrin review – powerful and prescient production strips Wagner’s opera of its romance

A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure

The Guardian - UK · Apr 20, 2022

Lohengrin review: an evening of acute theatrical potency

This production of Wagner’s opera warns of the dangers of an embattled society putting its trust in a charismatic leader

Evening Standard · Apr 20, 2022

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