Tag Archives: Karolina Sofulak

Macbeth, Longborough, July 2026

What a terrific experience this was, seeing Verdi’s Macbeth in the Cotswolds with strong voices and excellent orchestral support. It was all so much more immediate than in a large opera house, and well worth the trip from London — see my review in The Article.

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Manon Lescaut, Opera Holland Park, June 2019

This opening of the Opera Holland Park season saw a production of Puccini’s first masterpiece by young director Karolina Sofulak, who updated this story of a girl torn between the student Des Grieux and the elderly aristocrat Geronte from its natural place in the eighteenth century to the swinging sixties. It didn’t work, and the …

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