“…what joy to watch the direct, effective staging of director Martin Lloyd-Evans and designer Bridget Kimak, complete with genuine stage magic as the airport finally dissolves into a sky of stars.
Flight / British Youth Opera / The Times

“Martin Lloyd-Evans’s production gives more than a nod to the Meyerhold who staged Prokofiev; full of simple magic (and Peter Brook-style poor-theatre techniques), it asks the audience to do the imaginative work and rewards us with dollops of fantasy and enchantment.”
The Little Green Swallow / The Guildhall School of Music and Drama / The Times

“Martin Lloyd-Evans’s production is good on the febrile atmosphere, part terror, part elation, of heady revolution...”
Andrea Chenier / Opera Holland Park / The Times

“Director Martin Lloyd-Evans clearly brought out the best from his young cast.”
Cendrillon / Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama / The Opera Critic

“By way of balancing the extreme opulence of the score, Martin Lloyd-Evans's production is strikingly plain and severe. His characterisation is meticulously detailed...”
L’Amore dei Tre Re / Opera Holland Park / The Independent

"Set in a Magritte landscape of puffy clouds and bowler-hatted factotums, Martin Lloyd-Evans's vivacious production of La Vie Parisienne at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama offers a welcome soupçon of escapism to those battered by wind, rain and credit crunch."
La Vie Parisienne / Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Independent on Sunday

"Conductor and director had teamed up to prepare a new translation (the programme credits Clive Timms with the lyrics and Martin Lloyd-Evans with dialogue), which proved both entertaining and deliverable.   Witticisms abounded, and Lloyd Evans directed with a sure touch, keeping the humour just short of farcical."
La Vie Parisienne / Guildhall School of Music and Drama / Musical Pointers

“...inspired direction from Martin Lloyd-Evans... This was a little gem that was hard to fault. they make for a superb evening out – but only of they are performed with the same style, imagination and quality as delivered here by the RSAMD.”
Ravel Double Bill / Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama/ Opera Now

“In Garden Opera's slimmed-down touring production, sung in Amanda Holden's skilful English translation, there's no chorus and there are a few cuts, while the recitatives are replaced with spoken dialogue adapted by the show's director, Martin Lloyd-Evans. But so bright and breezy is the al fresco staging and so high the overall standard of musicianship - the six-piece band led from the piano by Peter Bridges is formidable - that there's no sense of being short-changed. The piece's essential humanity registers as clearly as the jokes.”
La cenerentola / Garden Opera / The Guardian

“Martin Lloyd-Evans' production is one of the more interesting of recent Queens of Spades, an international favourite which has invited endless different directorial approaches.”
The Queen of Spades / Opera Holland Park / Musical Pointers

“...Martin Lloyd-Evans's sharp-edged production. Resourcefully designed by Neil Irish, it evokes the claustrophobic moral stench of Mussolini's Italy and carves a clean narrative line throughout the drama.”R
Rigoletto / Mid Wales Opera / The Times