After the techno high jinks of the Met’s cinema relay of Tristan und Isolde the day before, Saffron Opera Group’s …
Category: reviews
Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
It was time to be back in rural Essex where the Saffron Opera Group are working their way through Wagner’s …
Charlotte Valori – operissimawhispers
Usually, a Ring Cycle hits you as a sudden burst of musical and philosophical intensity, its four huge evenings sprawling …
Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
This was my second – and what a second – experience of a full concert performance by the Saffron Opera …
Charlotte Valori – Bachtrack
A concert performance can be almost a contradiction in terms for opera: music built to hold a powerful narrative, rich …
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 …