An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...

This Opera North production of Ruddigore is really delightful. Projecting witty silent-film footage over the overture to fill in the back story, director Jo Davies has updated the action to the 1920s.

There are several reasons, starting with the title (originally “Ruddygore”, until Victorian sensibilities objected), why Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Gilbert and Sullivan ...

Will you “…whistle some dreadful popular air from a British opera” (Oscar Wilde) as you emerge from the Leeds Grand Theatre? Almost certainly. Is Gilbert and Sullivan “UKIP set to music?” (Jonathan ...

That furnishes the other sublime sequence of the evening, a duet punctuated by “blameless dances” with the once-mad, also now reformed Margaret, calmed by the magic word "Basingstoke". Cassandra ...

Gilbert and Sullivan's supernatural shocker Ruddigore has never been among the most popular of the Savoy operas – when introduced last year, Opera North's staging was the first professional production ...

It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here It’s now most of a theatre-going lifetime since Gilbert ...

In “Ruddigore: or The Witch’s Curse,” Gilbert and Sullivan set themselves the task of exaggerating an exaggeration. They did it, and Light Opera Works’ production of the operetta takes the process a ...

A collaboration with Charles Court Opera is becoming a regular feature of every Opera Holland Park season. When the pairing staged The Pirates of Penzance here in 2021 (and in 2020 in reduced and ...