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Profoundly humane vision of Strauss's autobiographical opera

11 Jun 15 / The Guardian

There’s comic potential there but in the end it is not enough

11 Jun 15 / Evening Standard

There really is no saving Richard Strauss’s semi-autobiographical opera

10 Jun 15 / Telegraph

A sensitive production makes a powerful case for Strauss's neglected 'opera domestica'

10 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

A hit for Garsington in Bruno Ravella’s staging and in Andrew Porter’s English translation

10 Jun 15 / The Stage

Bruno Ravella’s direction is admirably supportive and restrained

10 Jun 15 / Classical Source

A breezy production of the comedy based on Strauss’s own marriage

10 Jun 15 / Financial Times

Love's not Time's fool

8 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

Mary Dunleavy came late to the production but she gives a fully rounded performance

7 Jun 15 / Music OMH

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Musical splendour of a duff production

24 Jun 15 / Independent

In the title role, Paul Nilon presents an astonishingly powerful portrait of physical and moral decline

24 Jun 15 / Opera Today

A production that rises to the challenges of Britten’s opera

24 Jun 15 / Financial Times

This new production of Britten's last major work catches all the score’s febrile anxiety

23 Jun 15 / Telegraph

Powerfully direct

23 Jun 15 / The Guardian

A thrilling, unwavering new production of Britten's final opera

23 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

Paul Curran’s production of Britten’s final opera is unforgettable

23 Jun 15 / The Stage

This production of Death in Venice is unmissable

23 Jun 15 / Music OMH

Death in Venice still asserts its oblique subtlety in explaining the process of creativity

23 Jun 15 / Classical Source

As soon as the music begins the years drop away

23 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

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John Fulljames new Cosi fan tutte feels like it’s been put together by someone with a very busy in-tray

11 Jun 15 / The Spectator

Interesting but overly serious and weighed down with unnecessary activity

9 Jun 15 / The Stage

Boyd’s sprightly pacing of the music met its match in John Fulljames’s eventful production

9 Jun 15 / Classical Source

The evening was redeemed by the strong musical performances

9 Jun 15 / Opera Today

Wedding chaos, deception and duplicity in Garsington’s Così fan tutte

8 Jun 15 / Bachtrack

Not Figaro's, but a marriage all the same as Garsington opens its season with Mozart

7 Jun 15 / What's on Stage

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The Cunning Little Vixen in all its rustic glory at Garsington

27 Jun 14 / Bachtrack

Teeming with life

27 Jun 14 / Telegraph

What a great evening of summer opera

27 Jun 14 / Classical Source

Garsington’s well paced Vixen not for the prudish

25 Jun 14 / Seen and Heard

Janacek's bucolic tale, magically staged by Daniel Slater, is the ideal summer opera

25 Jun 14 / What's on Stage

Fabulous cast, ravishing production

24 Jun 14 / The Guardian

Over-busy, but with outstanding singers

24 Jun 14 / Independent

The Wormsley estate is an ideal setting for Janáček’s opera

24 Jun 14 / Financial Times

The unique setting of the Opera Pavilion at Wormsley was clearly felt to be enough to suggest the forest

24 Jun 14 / Music OMH

An undoubted success for the festival

23 Jun 14 / The Stage

Human yearning trumps animal cutesiness in Daniel Slater's thoughtful Janáček

23 Jun 14 / The Arts Desk

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Vert-Vert is a fantastically funny full-on comic opera which hurtles towards you at 100 miles an hour

11 Jun 14 / Bucks Free Press

The cast of Offenbach's Vert-Vert is pretty much faultless

11 Jun 14 / Telegraph

Opera's dead parrot sketch: Offenbach's Vert-Vert delights at Garsington

11 Jun 14 / Bachtrack

How delicious that Garsington Opera has turned to Offenbach

11 Jun 14 / The Arts Desk

Exuberant virtuosity takes the breath away

10 Jun 14 / Independent

Offenbach's little-known operetta brings comic bliss to Garsington

10 Jun 14 / What's on Stage

Less historical satire, more St Trinians

10 Jun 14 / Evening Standard

Offenbach's slender piece often feels joke-free

9 Jun 14 / The Guardian

For many the fun and froth of Vert-Vert will be the perfect complement to a summer’s day picnicking

9 Jun 14 / Music OMH

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Rebecca von Lipinski’s Leonore/Fidelio was the centre of attention

11 Jun 14 / Classical Source

Viscerally powerful

10 Jun 14 / Independent

John Cox’s production does everything right

10 Jun 14 / Music OMH

Garsington's 25th anniversary season opens with a revival of John Cox's powerful staging of Beethoven's only opera

9 Jun 14 / What's on Stage

A Fidelio to remember

9 Jun 14 / The Stage

Garsington Opera's Fidelio proves entertaining but emotionally flat

9 Jun 14 / Bachtrack

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An overwhelmingly joyous experience

25 Jun 13 / The Stage

The whole thing is magic whatever the climate brings

25 Jun 13 / Music OMH

Hänsel and Gretel proved to be an indomitable pair

25 Jun 13 / Classical Source

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Garsington gives Rossini’s Maometto II its British premiere

13 Jun 13 / Seen and Heard

A hugely impressive night at the opera, brilliantly performed and extremely well staged

12 Jun 13 / Bucks Free Press

Edward Dick's Carry On Follow That Camel production failed to impress

12 Jun 13 / What's on Stage

In Rossini’s day, this was one of his least successful works; now it looks like one of his best

12 Jun 13 / Financial Times

Rossini music is as vocally flamboyant as it is harmonically tense and orchestrally powerful

11 Jun 13 / The Guardian

Garsington has certainly made the case for Maometto secondo

11 Jun 13 / Classical Source

Garsington's 'Maometto secondo' is risibly directed but superlatively sung

10 Jun 13 / Independent

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Garsington Opera opened its 2013 season last weekend to hardly a cloud in the sky

16 Jun 13 / Express

Rhythmic vitality and artistic licence in Garsington’s Entführung

13 Jun 13 / Seen and Heard

Mozart’s youthful singspiel gets a snappy, zestful production at Garsington

11 Jun 13 / Music OMH

Garsington Opera kicks off its 2013 season with a stunning production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail

11 Jun 13 / Spear's

A brave and fun-filled re-imagining of Mozart's most loveable opera

9 Jun 13 / Telegraph

Clever farce is the order of the day at this country house opera's season opener

8 Jun 13 / The Arts Desk

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A stylish, big-budget production

21 Jun 12 / The Oxford Times

A pleasant evening out, but not the dangerous entertainment it could be

21 Jun 12 / The Guardian

Full marks to Garsington for reviving one of the less-performed of Offenbach's twenty operettas

19 Jun 12 / Independent

It’s a wonderful evening’s entertainment

19 Jun 12 / The Stage

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A timely revival of Vivaldi’s rarely seen late work

14 Jun 12 / The Oxford Times

Freeman treats the rather silly plot with a light touch of humour but also with compassion

9 Jun 12 / Musical Criticism

The performances were pitch-perfect

7 Jun 12 / Bucks Free Press

Laurence Cummings serves up the full glory of the score

7 Jun 12 / The Stage

Garsington Opera maintains its standards in its new home

6 Jun 12 / Seen and Heard

Tim Mead and Emily Fons brought sweetness and warmth to the bleakly cold night

6 Jun 12 / Telegraph

Its flimsy plot renders it little more than a vocal showcase

5 Jun 12 / Independent

In this Olympic battle the final scores are Garsington 1 Vivaldi 0

5 Jun 12 / The Arts Desk

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Much will be forgiven in a production so richly rewarding musically,

7 Jun 12 / The Oxford Times

Daniel Slater's production is both refreshingly modern and occasionally lacklustre

7 Jun 12 / The Stage

Garsington Opera maintains its standards in its new home

6 Jun 12 / Seen and Heard

A thoroughly enjoyable, often spectacular production

6 Jun 12 / Bucks Free Press

The action is often confused and occasionally perverse

6 Jun 12 / The Guardian

Dramatically and musically there’s not a weak link in this chain

5 Jun 12 / Independent

A jolly divertissement, certainly, but a masterpiece like Don Giovanni should offer so much more

4 Jun 12 / Classical Source