Richard Bratby

This is how G&S should be staged: ENO’s HMS Pinafore reviewed

Plus: I’ve rarely heard a Covent Garden crowd explode like they did at Royal Opera's latest Violetta

Take your kids, take your opera-sceptic friends; take your sisters and your cousins and your aunts: Les Dennis as Sir Joseph Porter and Bethan Langford as Hebe in HMS Pinafore. Credit: © Marc Brenner
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  • HMS Pinafore

    Coliseum, in rep until 11 December

  • La traviata

    Royal Opera House, in rep until 18 April 2022

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