Monday, March 16, 2020
It’s usual for a company to leave some space between one production of a classic work and another, but Joe Hill-Gibbins’ new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMFriday, March 6, 2020
The annual production by members of the Royal Opera’s Jette Parker Young Artists Programme gives the scheme’s current intake a chance to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMThursday, March 5, 2020
English Touring Opera launches its spring tour with the complex Mozart/Da Ponte comedy whose title translates as All Women Behave Like That
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMMonday, March 2, 2020
This year marks 250 years since Beethoven’s birth. For opera companies the anniversary choice is simple, since he completed only one opera,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
The first so-called ‘CNN opera’ was premiered in 1987, when the events it portrayed – US President Richard Nixon’s unanticipated and historic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Opera is a fairly recent art form: the first work generally accounted as an opera dates from 1597 and is largely lost,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:19PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Composer Gerald Barry tells George Hall about discovering music as a child, cutting up Oscar Wilde for The Important of Being Earnest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMonday, January 20, 2020
Premiered on Broadway in 1947, Kurt Weill’s ‘American opera’ drew on a Pulitzer-winning play that sought to depict realistically the interconnected lives
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMMonday, January 13, 2020
Puccini’s classic tale of bohemian love, poverty, life and death in 19th-century Paris returns for another revival. Before Richard Jones’ production (here
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
This first collaboration between the Royal Opera and the disabled and non-disabled artists of Candoco is based on Shaun Tan’s picture book
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Originally launched by star tenor Jonas Kaufmann, Keith Warner’s 2017 production returns, this time with 65-year-old American Gregory Kunde in the title
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:12AMMonday, November 18, 2019
English National Opera has enjoyed significant success with two major Glass pieces: Satyagraha and Akhnaten, which, together with Einstein on the Beach,
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New Sussex Opera joins forces with operetta specialists Opera della Luna for its latest production, which benefits from Jeff Clarke’s mastery of
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Mark Padmore’s latest role was written for Benjamin Britten’s lifelong partner Peter Pears. The tenor tells George Hall how at 58 he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMonday, November 4, 2019
The Royal Opera has taken to calling Mozart’s work The Magic Flute on its website, rather than retaining the German title Die
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Just one UK performance for this staging of Oliver Knussen’s family opera – arguably the finest of all such pieces – following
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Irish composer Andrew Synnott’s La Cucina (The Kitchen) makes its world premiere on Wexford’s main stage, with a libretto by the event’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, October 25, 2019
Premiered at English National Opera back in 1986, The Mask of Orpheus belatedly returns in a staging by Daniel Kramer – the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMRising star director Rodula Gaitanou joins with designer Takis and conductor Timothy Myers to give Wexford a successful season launch with this
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At a festival that celebrates the rare, Baroque opera is itself a rarity. The works of Antonio Vivaldi – best known for
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Since its first showing in 2007, Annabel Arden’s staging of Donizetti’s heart-warming romcom L’Elisir d’Amore (The Love Potion) has become a welcome
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Rigoletto belatedly enters the Glyndebourne repertory via Christiane Lutz’s staging, a radical rewrite of Verdi’s revenge tragedy based on a play by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
You sometimes hear people describe Don Pasquale as a ‘cruel’ comedy – though they’re often a bit vague as to what they
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Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-72) is one of those composers much admired inside his homeland – in this case, Poland – where he is
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English Touring Opera’s autumn tour celebrates the German form of Singspiel – opera with spoken dialogue – with works by Mozart and
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The second instalment of English National Opera’s Orpheus season is an operetta, and one of the most famous of all: Offenbach’s Orpheus
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
English National Opera opens its Orpheus-themed season with the first of four operas on the myth: Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice, a work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMThursday, September 26, 2019
Gerald Barry’s first opera premiered in 1990 with a libretto by Vincent Deane, though not much has been heard of it since.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMTuesday, September 24, 2019
The Royal Opera is working its way through the operas and oratorios Handel composed for the first Theatre Royal, Covent Garden –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMonday, September 23, 2019
Carmen is one of the most iconic operas, with the popularity of individual musical numbers giving everyone some idea of its subject
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Now in his mid-40s, Peruvian star tenor Juan Diego Flórez has enjoyed a brilliant career specialising in bel canto roles and especially
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