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Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International

This was my second – and what a second – experience of a full concert performance by the Saffron Opera …

A concert performance can be almost a contradiction in terms for opera: music built to hold a powerful narrative, rich …

Das Rheingold at Saffron Walden was magnificent. Die Meistersinger 15 months ago had been a brave and admirable attempt, but …

Dämmerung! We take it to mean “dusk” referring to the decline and demise of the gods. It can just as …

Although I said this in previous reviews, I need to restate that the enormity of Saffron Opera’s task in putting …

Saffron Opera Group’s Ring Cycle finally culminated in a direct, satisfyingly shattering Götterdämmerung, in which we felt the world change …

It has taken Saffron Opera Group the best part of two years to complete its Ring cycle, but the long …

This was quite an event. The Saffron Opera Group, now in its second year, put on a concert performance of …

Saffron Hall celebrated its first birthday with the best performance of Die Meistersinger that I have witnessed for 40 years. …

Strong Wagnerian Debut for New Saffron Opera Group

United Kingdom Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus, St Albans Symphony …