Each year in September the Saffron Opera Group gives a performance in the magnificent Saffron Hall of a Wagner opera, …
Category: reviews
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 …
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
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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 …
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 …
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 …