Frances Forbes-Carbines

Frances Forbes-Carbines is an art and opera critic, researcher and creative strategist based in the UK. She studied at Bristol University and at the Sorbonne, and has worked for a wide range of arts and cultural organisations.

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Articles by Frances Forbes-Carbines

Frances Forbes-Carbines strongly recommends Puccini's 'Turandot' at Covent Garden

Frances Forbes-Carbines finds Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' at Covent Garden an incredible production of a glorious revenge-fest

Frances Forbes-Carbines finds Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera 'Festen' far from easy viewing

Frances Forbes-Carbines is moved by the singing and the theatricality of English National Opera's production of 'Mary, Queen of Scots'

Frances Forbes-Carbines experiences Mozart's 'The Marriage of Figaro' at English National Opera, praising the music but not the costumes or the set

Frances Forbes-Carbines, in her first feature for Classical Music Daily, gives English National Opera's revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Pirates of Penzance' an enthusiastic thumbs up

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