Wednesday, September 18, 2019
Now in his mid-40s, Peruvian star tenor Juan Diego Flórez has enjoyed a brilliant career specialising in bel canto roles and especially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMTuesday, September 17, 2019
Kasper Holten’s legacy to the Royal Opera includes this 2014 production of Mozart’s dark comedy, which had a pretty mixed reception first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMTuesday, September 3, 2019
For more than 40 years, Opera North has striven for artistic excellence while reaching out to new audiences. As the company prepares
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMMonday, September 2, 2019
Operatically speaking, David Blake is best known for two substantial works premiered by English National Opera: Toussaint in 1976 and The Plumber’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMFriday, August 30, 2019
Originally the name of a Spanish colonial council, the word ‘cabildo’ also denotes the buildings in which such institutions carried out their
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Over its 25 years of existence Opera della Luna has given nearly 500 performances of the indestructible Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Of Scott Joplin’s two operas, one is entirely lost and the other, Treemonisha, exists only in vocal score. Despite the composer having
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMThursday, August 22, 2019
Lars von Trier’s 1996 film Breaking the Waves remains a controversial work. The narrative, and in particular its treatment of the central
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Opera in the City Festival opens its third season with what must be a UK premiere, and a great rarity anywhere: a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMFriday, August 9, 2019
We no longer view the events of the First Crusade (1095-99) in the way Handel and his audiences did. Set during that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMTuesday, July 30, 2019
Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder’s 1791 opera is a defence of their shared involvement with freemasonry. Its unique blend of the fantastical,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMFriday, July 26, 2019
In Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, the unhappily married heroine is inspired by a performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor to reflect on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AMThursday, July 25, 2019
The printed synopsis of Verdi’s Nabucco as staged by Peter Relton for Dorset Opera is unusually imprecise in terms of both period
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMTuesday, July 23, 2019
The last of Opera Holland Park’s stagings this summer is this double bill of unusual titles: Wolf-Ferrari’s clever little comedy of marital
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMMonday, July 22, 2019
Jeff Clarke set up Opera della Luna in 1994 to stage the neglected repertoire of comic operas and operettas. He tells George
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMFriday, July 19, 2019
An Enlightenment tract, Mozart’s The Magic Flute is equally a reminder of the limitations of that movement in terms of its views
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMFriday, July 12, 2019
First seen in 2007 and here revived for the fourth time, Laurent Pelly’s amiable production of Donizetti’s light comedy The Daughter of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
Even at a time when Baroque operas are being endlessly revived, the 40 surviving examples by Antonio Caldara haven’t had much of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
The Italian word pasticcio can mean a number of things, but to 18th-century audiences it meant a sort of musical pudding made
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PMMonday, July 8, 2019
Buxton’s new regime launches with a visually intriguing and musically impassioned account of Tchaikovsky’s opera, set in mid-19th-century Russia and sung in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMThursday, July 4, 2019
Written in 1958, Britten’s opera brings together professionals and amateurs, adults and children to tell the tale of Noah’s Flood – to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMMonday, July 1, 2019
David McVicar’s 2006 production comes up vividly in this imaginative revival overseen by Thomas Guthrie. This is a Marriage of Figaro moved
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMFriday, June 28, 2019
The London Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season with this semi-staging of Janacek’s opera about the relationship between humans and the animal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:42AMThursday, June 27, 2019
Director Adele Thomas’ grandfather was a film projectionist in the 1930s, she tells us, and her formative years were spent watching the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:31AMMonday, June 24, 2019
Immediately the ENO and Regent’s Park co-production of Humperdinck’s fairytale opera closes, Grange Park opens its own version. There are a number
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMFriday, June 21, 2019
When Handel wanted to produce his oratorio Esther in London in 1732, the Bishop of London responded with a ban on staged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Richard Jones’ production of Musorgsky’s psychologically probing study of the individual at the centre of a troubled epoch in Russian history plays
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMTuesday, June 18, 2019
In Operaland, Hansel and Gretel is not just for Christmas – hence this midsummer co-production by English National Opera at Regent’s Park,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMFriday, June 14, 2019
Thus far, the 2019 country-house season has been partially stymied by the weather, which remains doggedly uncongenial for pastoral picnics or parkland
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMMonday, June 10, 2019
It’s refreshing to encounter a Marriage of Figaro set in period and – even more precisely – in Seville. Designer Tim Reed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMMassenet’s fairytale opera entered Glyndebourne via the company’s 2018 tour. Fiona Shaw’s production didn’t quite work on that occasion, and is now
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