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Peter Grimes review – beauty and terror in Warner’s topical staging

As the tormented fisherman, Allan Clayton currently has few rivals. He is matched by a superb cast in this gripping revival of Britten’s opera

The Guardian - UK · May 6

Peter Grimes at Royal Opera: A poleaxing production

4/5 Benjamin Britten’s opera is reimagined in gritty and grisly fashion in Deborah Warner’s powerful new take

Evening Standard · May 6

Winterreise review – agony and ecstasy as Bostridge and Drake bring Schubert’s song cycle to dramatic life

Deborah Warner’s staged version of Winterreise is a powerful and deeply moving piece of theatre

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2024

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Phaedra/Minotaur review – gripping double bill scales the heights of emotion

Mezzo soprano Christine Rice is compelling in the first half while dancers in the dreamlike second part are a revelation in Deborah Warner’s simply staged show

The Guardian - UK · Aug 19, 2023

The week in classical: Wozzeck; Don Giovanni – Christian Gerhaher and Anja Kampe thrill in five-star Berg

Direction and music are as one in Deborah Warner’s gripping new Royal Opera production, while a fine young cast redeems thoughtful if low-key Mozart

The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2023

Don Giovanni at Glyndebourne and Wozzeck at the Royal Opera House mark a glorious start to the season

A pair of nuanced and contemporary reimaginings

Evening Standard · May 22, 2023

Wozzeck review – Gerhaher’s victim shuffles towards disaster in nuanced staging

Deborah Warner’s focused and vivid new production avoids caricature, and, with superb singing and Antonio Pappano’s conducting, drama and music dovetail perfectly

The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2023

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Classical music: Fiona Maddocks’s 10 best concerts and operas of 2022

Excellence and perilous funding went hand in hand, Salome sizzled, a piano great led the way, and India and Italy became musical neighbours

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2022

Phaedra and Minotaur review – Kim Brandstrup’s ravishing new work puts Ariadne centre stage

Brandstrup’s superbly danced reimagining of the Minotaur myth is paired with mezzo Christine Rice’s impassioned Phaedra in Britten’s cantata

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

The week in theatre: Patriots; The Tempest; King Lear

Tom Hollander excels in Peter Morgan’s incisive oligarch drama; Deborah Warner directs a fine Tempest; and Michelle Terry plays both the Fool and Cordelia to Kathryn Hunter’s Lear

The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2022

The Tempest review – Deborah Warner’s grimy island engrosses and disgusts

Ustinov, BathThe veteran director’s arrestingly visceral production honours the sheer strangeness of Shakespeare’s late play

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2022

The week in classical: Peter Grimes; Emerson Quartet; RPO/Petrenko

An all-star production of Britten’s opera thrilled; Soviet-era melancholy flowed through Shostakovich’s quartets; and the RPO rose to their game-changing new conductor

The Guardian - UK · Mar 26, 2022

Peter Grimes review – Compelling, unsettling and ravishingly sung

Deborah Warner’s detailed new production sets Britten’s opera in a decayed coastal town in post-Brexit Britain. Allan Clayton – on top form – leads an outstanding cast; conductor Mark Elder emphasises the score’s beauty and well as its violence

The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2022

Peter Grimes at the Royal Opera House review: Deborah Warner’s production is evocative and theatrical

The director evokes neglected contemporary estuary towns in her new version of the coastal tragedy

Evening Standard · Mar 18, 2022

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