A concert performance can be almost a contradiction in terms for opera: music built to hold a powerful narrative, rich …
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Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
Das Rheingold at Saffron Walden was magnificent. Die Meistersinger 15 months ago had been a brave and admirable attempt, but …
Roger Lee – Wagner News
Dämmerung! We take it to mean “dusk” referring to the decline and demise of the gods. It can just as …
Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
Although I said this in previous reviews, I need to restate that the enormity of Saffron Opera’s task in putting …
Charlotte Valori – operissimawhispers
Saffron Opera Group’s Ring Cycle finally culminated in a direct, satisfyingly shattering Götterdämmerung, in which we felt the world change …
Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
It has taken Saffron Opera Group the best part of two years to complete its Ring cycle, but the long …
Richard Burkhard
Wolfram
Melanie Lodge
Parsifal – Second Esquire and Second Flowermaiden, First Group Die Walküre – Waltraute
Brian Smith Walters
Walther
Michael Tanner – Opera Magazine
This was quite an event. The Saffron Opera Group, now in its second year, put on a concert performance of …