Handel: Saul at Glyndebourne Festival Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, June 10, 2025
'A production that walked the line between playful and sinister'
Reviews
Sullivan/Hession and Lehar: Trail by Jury/A Matter of Misconduct! and The Merry Widow at Scottish Opera | Live Review
- Monday, June 9, 2025
Despite the glitzy makeovers for Sullivan’s Trial by Jury and Lehár’s The Merry Widow, both old timers were completely overshadowed by a new kid on the block. Toby Hessions’ A Matter of Misconduct!
Mozart: Così fan tutte at Nevill Holt Festival | Live Review
- Monday, June 9, 2025
In collaboration with Opera North, Cecilia Stinton's multi-layered production was trumped by the quality of its singers
Bellini: La Straniera at Chelsea Opera | Live Review
- Wednesday, June 4, 2025
The Chelsea Opera Group chorus was having a marvellous time, the concert setting of the piece aptly framed them as a looming Greek chorus
Avner Dorman: Wahnfried at Longborough Festival Opera | Live Review
- Monday, June 2, 2025
'The mischievous Wagner-dæmon offers biting commentary, effectively amplifying the opera’s critique of fanaticism'
Tchaikovsky: Queen of Spades at Garsington Opera | Live Review
- Friday, May 30, 2025
Director Jack Furness plays with illusion, a game of smoke and mirrors in a terrifically atmospheric staging
Donizetti: Elixir of Love at Garsington Opera | Live Review
- Thursday, May 29, 2025
A terrific evening which could not have been better received by an enthusiastic audience A wonderful augury for the season as a whole
Wagner: Parsifal at Frankfurt Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Musically, the production is a triumph on all counts. The lead singers are a testament to the German Fest system: a world-class cast drawn almost entirely from salaried employees of the company
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Festival Hall, London | Live review
- Tuesday, May 27, 2025
It proved to be a great operatic experience. If Harris’ production laid the firmest foundations for the piece, singing of superior quality and certainly on a suitably Verdian scale fleshed out its...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville at Glyndebourne | Live Review
- Monday, May 19, 2025
The leads are as animated as their instrumental colleagues, and feel as though they have been plucked from a Pixar film
Amopera at the Wiener Konzerthaus | Review
- Monday, May 19, 2025
The 'dystopian ballad' by Klangforum Wien and Needcompany is a multimedia meta-opera exploring love through the medium of 20th and 21st-century works
Wagner: Parsifal at Glyndebourne | Live Review
- Monday, May 19, 2025
Everything about this production is clearly inspired by the venue, its traditions and especially its size
Adams: Antony and Cleopatra at Metropolitan Opera | Live Review
- Thursday, May 15, 2025
Adams demands close attention and rewards it not with obvious operatic tropes, but with a cumulative and subtle psychological impact
Wagner: Walküre at Royal Opera House | Live Review
- Friday, May 2, 2025
Kosky is such a terrific director, sensitive not only to the text but also to the score. He makes you see Wagner’s music
Mozart: Don Giovanni/Requiem | Komische Oper Berlin
- Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Serebrennikov’s production offers a purgatorial journey rich in symbolism and trickster energy, blending Don Giovanni’s downfall with the transcendent strains of Mozart’s Requiem
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