reviews

 

Marcellina
The Marriage of Figaro
English National Opera
Marie Curie
Daughters of the Elements
Polycaste
Icarus
Tête-à-Tête Festival
Swiss Grandmother, Austrian Woman, British Dancing Girl
The Death of Klinghoffer
Opera Theatre of St Louis
Suzuki
Madama Butterfly
Houston Grand Opera
Carolina
Elegy for Young Lovers
ENO/Young Vic
Recollections of My Childhood
Stravinsky Songs
Transition_Projects

Margaret Johnson
The Light in the Piazza
The Curve

Page Salome
Metropolitan Opera

Prince Orlofsky
Domingo & Friends: LA Opera’s 20th Anniversary Gala

Los Angeles Opera

Hansel Hansel and Gretel
Los Angeles Opera

Cherubino Le nozze di Figaro
Los Angeles Opera

Erika Vanessa
Los Angeles Opera

Erika Vanessa
Washington National Opera

Ava Hopper’s Wife
Long Beach Opera

Clare de Loone On the Town English National Opera

Amastris Xerxes
English National Opera

Judy Punch and Judy ENO/Young Vic

Thea The Knot Garden MTW/ROH2

Octavian Der Rosenkavalier Hamburg Staatsoper

Charlotte Werther
Cologne

Sméraldine
L’amour des Trois Oranges
Cologne

Sesto Giulio Cesare
Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Erika Vanessa
Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Erika Vanessa
Opéra du Rhin, Strasbourg

Clare de Loone On the Town Théatre du Châtelet

Stravinsky Songs
City of Birmingham
Symphony Orchestra

Songs of the Auvergne
New York City Ballet

Margaret Johnson X The Light in the Piazza X The Curve

 

“But the show really belongs to the operatically scaled mezzo of Lucy Schaufer's Mother who, in finally summoning the courage to let her daughter go, achieves a form of liberation for herself.”
(The Guardian)


© Catherine Ashmore

"The show becomes emotionally compelling with Margaret... And as a singer? She can knock your dentures out.
Yet the show realises its potential when Margaret takes us deeper into its themes. Love concludes the woman with a dead marriage, a guilty heart and a knowledge that there are no easy answers, can conquer all. Schaufer sings it with such conviction that, just for a moment, you have to believe she's right.”
(The Times)

All other production photos © Aoife Nally