This Don Giovanni, presented in a neo-classical stone amphitheatre, inaugurates the Waterperry Opera Festival in rural Oxfordshire. It shares the programme with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMIt is 60 years since Vanessa’s successful premiere at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in New York, but this is the first professional
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMThis revival of Robert Carsen’s 2012 staging of Verdi’s final opera seems to have everything you could ask for. Appropriately enough, it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMDulwich Opera is a touring company established by two young singers, Loretta Hopkins and David Fletcher. Its production of Cosi Fan Tutte
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMRevered more than 40 years after her death, Maria Callas wowed audiences from the New York Met to La Scala in Milan.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMAhead of its production of Little Shop of Horrors, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre stages a subtler and more sinister musical chiller,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMMamzer, a Hebrew word, denotes a person born from a forbidden relationship. Yoel (countertenor Collin Shay) is a timid 21-year-old Hassid. On
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMSome of the best moments in Trioperas come when the show gets furthest away from conventional expectations of opera. There’s the breakdancing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMMarie Duplessis, the historical model for Verdi’s Violetta Valery, died at the age of just 23. This makes La Traviata an apt
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMThis is the first time that Madama Butterfly has emerged from her chrysalis at Glyndebourne’s summer festival, though the company first toured
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMLaurence Osborn, the 29-year-old composer of this new opera, writes in the programme of the claustrophobia of living with his mother until
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMFamously condemned by Stalin in 1936, Shostakovich’s graphic Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk still has the power to shock. Until the bleak final
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMThe New York-based composer Philip Hagemann has come to London to conduct this double bill of his own operas, both receiving their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMStravinsky’s neoclassical extravaganza, The Rake’s Progress, plays on the tension between artificiality and sincerity. This elegant and lively inaugural production by OperaGlass
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMAhead of Barrie Kosky’s new production of Carmen, due at Covent Garden in February, the Royal Opera House’s Jette Parker young artists
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMThe vision of a British opera industry that is as ethnically diverse as Team GB at the London and Rio Olympics may
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMCentred on the passions and pains of an operatic diva, Tosca gives Puccini permission to use his full, seductive box of tricks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMA cheeky eschatological opera featuring a virtuosic high soprano as the sinister police chief – if that sounds like Gyorgy Ligeti’s Le
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMOpening Dalston’s annual Grimeborn opera festival before visiting the Edinburgh Fringe, The Marriage of Kim K come from Manchester-based company Leoe and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMThis summer, Albert Herring, Benjamin Britten’s comic opera of repression, rum-laced lemonade and rites of passage celebrates 70 years since its premiere
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