Don Giovanni

Guardian“Classy singing undermined by odd editorial choices...” Norris updates the opera to the present and locates it in a modern urban hell-hole, where hooded, demonic figures rub shoulders with the protagonists, who, all too frequently, act in defiance of Mozart's compassion and sensuality...

The Stage“The singers do well under the circumstances...” Apart from one scene, in which Iain Paterson’s Giovanni lunges from behind to grope Zerlina’s crotch, there’s little impression of a man driven by a febrile carnal appetite...

Whatsonstage.com“It’s better than it was, then, but still no cigar...” Iain Paterson sang the title role with such transparency and tonal beauty that he was able to shrug off the charisma-free interpretation foisted upon him by the director. Darren Jeffery’s Baldrick of a Leporello, by contrast, was stronger...

Evening Standard“A good deal of superfluous and unconvincing stage business has gone...” Tension is maintained throughout the recitatives and commendable diction throughout the cast, combined with fresh directorial thinking, has paid handsome dividends...

The Telegraph“Norris doesn’t have much to say about Mozart’s opera...” The subtly (and cynically) rewritten Serenade makes a last-ditch bid for sympathy, but by the time we got to the ineptly realised damnation, well, I couldn’t give a damn...