Le nozze di Figaro – Sun 25th February 2024
- Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
- Le nozze di Figaro - Once again, Saffron Opera fielded an astutely chosen cast, led by Lucy Hall’s wise and sassy Susanna, Pauls Putnins’ cleverly realised Count, and Frederick Long’s personable Figaro.
Der Rosenkavalier – Sun 10th September 2023
- Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
-Remarkable singing actors makes Saffron Opera Group’s Rosenkavalier a significant achievement.
In composing Der Rosenkavalier Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, respectively …
Don Giovanni – Sun 19th February 2023
- Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
-Someone at Saffron Opera has got their ear to the ground for mainly young singers, and you may well wonder …
- Katie Barnes
-The Saffron Opera Group, currently celebrating its tenth anniversary, began marking the occasion with this concert performance of Don Giovanni …
Tannhäuser – Sun 11th September 2022
- Irene Richards – Wagner News
-There can be very few Comprehensive schools in the country that are blessed with a space like Saffron Hall. Saffron …
- Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
-After a two-year Covid-induced hiatus, Saffron Opera was back to their Wagner project with this fine concert performance of Tannhäuser. …
Così fan tutte – Sun 13th February 2022
- Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
-The Saffron Opera Group has had its share of Covid casualties – its Tannhäuser was cancelled twice (third time lucky, …
- Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
-I never mind repeating myself and when writing about Così fan tutte a few years ago I began ‘Looking back …
Tristan und Isolde – Sun 15th September 2019
- Michael Tanner
-Each year in September the Saffron Opera Group gives a performance in the magnificent Saffron Hall of a Wagner opera, …
- Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
-It was a day when you had to double-check your diary because it said it was September though it seemed …
Parsifal – Sun 16th September 2018
- Anthony Negus – Wagner News
-A beautiful sunny day and relaxed atmosphere, meeting old friends, and knowing that we had all made the effort to …
- Gavin Dixon – The Arts Desk
-www.theartsdesk.com/opera/parsifal-saffron-opera-group-review-drama-and-focus
It is a pleasure to report on the continuing success of the Saffron Opera Wagner project. …
- Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
-Some self-plagiarism is good for the soul, so I will remind readers of something I have written before and how …
Götterdämmerung – Sun 17th September 2017
- 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 …
Siegfried – Sun 12th February 2017
- Andrew Clements – The Guardian
-This concert performance, part of the new opera group’s Ring Cycle, made the lack of any theatrical setting cease to …
- Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
-Is it possible to base a successful Siegfried simply on Erda and the Woodbird? Perhaps not, but Saffron Walden came …
- Charlotte Valori – operissimawhispers
-Since their affecting Das Rheingold and resplendent Die Walküre in 2016, the Saffron Opera Group’s Ring Cycle has become something …
Die Walküre – Sun 9th October 2016
- Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
-It was remarkable that it could happen at all, this performance of Die Walküre; but it was even more remarkable …
- Peter Reed – Opera Magazine
-After the techno high jinks of the Met’s cinema relay of Tristan und Isolde the day before, Saffron Opera Group’s …
- 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 …
Das Rheingold – Sun 17th January 2016
- 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 …
The Rake’s Progress – Sun 13th September 2015
- Michael Tanner – Opera Magazine
-This was quite an event. The Saffron Opera Group, now in its second year, put on a concert performance of …
Die Meistersinger – Sun 14th September 2014
- Paul Dawson-Bowling – Wagner News
-Saffron Hall celebrated its first birthday with the best performance of Die Meistersinger that I have witnessed for 40 years. …
- Jim Pritchard – Seen & Heard International
- Strong Wagnerian Debut for New Saffron Opera GroupUnited Kingdom Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Soloists, Saffron Opera Group Chorus, St Albans Symphony …
- Michael Tanner – Opera Magazine
-I don’t suppose that anyone who wasn’t in Saffron Hall, the splendid new concert venue in Saffron Walden, will believe …