Thursday, February 13, 2020
This new English National Opera production of Luisa Miller starts as it means to go on. Under conductor Alexander Joel, the overture’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMFriday, November 22, 2019
The strip of sea that evokes Venice Lido is emblematic of David McVicar’s new staging of Benjamin Britten’s final opera, Death in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Puccini’s evergreen tale of youthful love and loss is only rarely cast with age-appropriate performers. Daisy Evans’ production for Hampstead Garden Opera,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PMFriday, August 16, 2019
Rossini’s music for Le Comte Ory is often exquisite, but the humour is robust. The womanising Count Ory devises ways of seducing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Hippolyte et Aricie, a take on the Phaedra story first seen in 1733, is a landmark opera by a supreme French composer,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMMonday, August 12, 2019
In purely musical terms, the most striking component of this trilogy of contemporary works is the finale: Bel canto by Cassandra Miller.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
The Opéra de Baugé, an enterprising British-run summer festival in the Loire, this year offers Die Zauberflöte, Il Trovatore, and a rarity,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMFriday, August 2, 2019
Usually performed in opera houses with astronomical budgets, Wagner’s epic works seem unlikely fare for fringe venues. Yehuda Shapiro discovers how, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMWednesday, July 31, 2019
Violetta, first seen at last year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, starts off with a surprise. Though it is a chamber version of Verdi’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMThere is no pumpkin coach in Rossini’s take on the Cinderella story. Its farce may be formulaic, but it is grounded in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMFriday, July 26, 2019
Jeff Clarke – artistic director of Opera della Luna, a company that turns 25 this year – is endlessly inventive. Just look
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
Die Fledermaus, with its delicious tunes and high spirits, might define Viennese operetta, but there is nothing romantic about its web of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AMTuesday, July 9, 2019
Thomas Guthrie, who directs this semi-staging of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, is fascinated by the possibilities of puppets and masks. At the Barbican last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMTuesday, July 2, 2019
In recent decades opera directors have found rich pickings in Dvorak’s grown-up take on the Little Mermaid story. Melly Still, whose 10-year-old
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AMMonday, June 17, 2019
Garsington’s third new production for 2019 brings the UK stage premiere of an opera first performed in Paris in 1872, but only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMMonday, June 10, 2019
In his first operatic venture, Christopher Luscombe delivers a sharply observed, precision-engineered production. Set in 2019, it even features a walk-on by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMFriday, June 7, 2019
Dating from 2016, this production of Don Carlo was first presented in Grange Park Opera’s former home in Hampshire. While never radical,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Manon Lescaut was Puccini’s first great success, but while it is full of marvellous moments, it is haphazardly built. Only in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMWednesday, April 17, 2019
For the second year running, Pegasus Opera is presenting the UK premieres of two one-act operas – one serious, one comic –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMTuesday, April 16, 2019
Kaj Nazar by Haro Stepanian, billed as Armenia’s first comic opera, has not been seen since its premiere in Yerevan in 1935.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMFriday, March 15, 2019
It is surprising that Bury Court Opera has waited until its final season to stage The Turn of the Screw: the company’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:10PMTuesday, March 12, 2019
English Touring Opera, which takes a flexible view on language, presents Verdi’s Macbeth in Andrew Porter’s English version. Since surtitles are also
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMThursday, January 31, 2019
The artistic and musical director of Ensemble OrQuesta, Marcio da Silva, has developed a distinctive style for his productions of Baroque opera.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMWednesday, January 23, 2019
Though John Caird, an honorary associate director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, is credited with the staging, this is essentially a concert
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
The gorgeous Edwardian Kings Theatre is ideal for traditional panto, and this is essentially what we get in this Cinderella. The richly-coloured
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:25AMTuesday, November 20, 2018
Famously encored in its entirety by the Emperor of Austria, Domenico Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto dates from 1792 – the year of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:33PMThursday, November 8, 2018
With Wagner’s Ring among its past projects, Fulham Opera now turns to Don Carlo, maybe Verdi’s grandest – and greatest – opera.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMFriday, October 12, 2018
Pascal Dusapin’s Passion, a meditation on the Orpheus myth, was premiered 10 years ago at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, but this collaboration between
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMFriday, September 7, 2018
Faust, Alberta is a small village in western Canada. In Simone Spagnolo’s new one-man opera, it is also a state of mind.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMMonday, September 3, 2018
A baroque extravaganza, The Enchanted Island was conceived by Jeremy Sams for the Metropolitan Opera, New York, where its premiere cast in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMMonday, August 20, 2018
This Don Giovanni, presented in a neo-classical stone amphitheatre, inaugurates the Waterperry Opera Festival in rural Oxfordshire. It shares the programme with
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