The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess

The Independent“A bold production of a well-intentioned but troublesome opera...” Derrick Lawrence's soft-grained Porgy and Janice Chandler Eteme's elegant Bess struggled to cut through William Eddins's insensitive conducting in their rhapsodic duet. Only in the quieter moments was the musicality of Lyon's orchestra evident...

Whatsonstage.com“Certainly impressive, if not always in a good way...” Janice Chandler-Eteme’s Bess is thrillingly sung; she’s much more powerful than Derrick Lawrence’s wheelchair-bound Porgy, and meets her musical match (tragically) in Gregg Baker’s imposing bad apple Crown...

Financial Times“Dance, video and live film in a whirl of eye-goggling business...” Odd as it may seem for a French company to bring a New World classic to Scotland with a non-French cast, the real point of this show is its visual energy, betokening a degree of technical sophistication UK companies can only dream about...

Guardian“It's a high-voltage interpretation...” Montalvo and Hervieu use dance and video to deepen the opera's resonances and contextualise its significance. The formidable routines capture the existential defiance of a community under threat from racism...

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

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Opera Britannia“Not yet reviewed”