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Music: Arthur Sullivan Libretto: W.S. Gilbert Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: Opera Della Luna pays a flying visit to Curve, Leicester this week with its production of The Ghosts Of Ruddigore, a reinterpretation of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera of (almost) the same name. The company was founded in 1994 and has [...]

Writer: Gilbert & Sullivan Director/Musical Director: Jeff Clark Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: I always enjoy going to Worthing. The wonderfully friendly front of house staff, the enthusiastic buzz of the audience, the slightly quirky theatres, in this case the Pavilion where sitting in the bar looking out on The English Channel and the Promenade you [...]

Wrriter: Gilbert and Sullivan Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Small-scale opera company Opera della Luna have taken this relatively unknown, two-act, Gilbert and Sullivan comic operetta and shifted the action by a century to the 1970s. The Sorcerer was the pair’s third operatic collaboration, and their first significant hit. It opened in London [...]

Writer: Gilbert and Sullivan Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: Opera della Luna treat their source material with affection and respect. As a result their adaptations, although always inventive and sometimes startling, retain the integrity of the originals. The Sorcerer is an early work of Gilbert and Sullivan and, not being particularly memorable, allows [...]

Writer:Gilbert & Sullivan Adaptor/Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Michael Gray The Public Reviews Rating: Was there ever a saucier Sorcerer ? Opera della Luna have taken Gilbert’s first full-length comic opera and fast-forwarded it a hundred years to the 1970s, where its themes of free love and mind-altering substances feel very much at home. We are at a garden [...]

Music: Johann Strauss Adaptor: Jeff Clarke Director: Jeff Clarke Choreographer: Jenny Arnold Musical Director: Jeff Clarke Reviewer: Jimmy Hardwick The Public Reviews Rating: Do the British ‘get’ opera? The question, which appears in the program for this production of Die Fledermaus, is a good one and one which I think I many people would answer in the negative. [...]