Festival theatre, Edinburgh This new production from Teatro Regio Torino has a solid cast and striking imagery backed by a richly nuanced account of Verdi’s score Verdi’s take on the Scottish play was the first opera to be performed at the inaugural Edinburgh...
Plan your viewing with our list of top shows, ordered by start time. This page will be updated throughout the festival Continue reading... Source: Opera News from the UK Guardian
The conspiracy theorists are ever vigilant for signs of impending apocalypse. Only a few days ago, a NASA tweet about a solar eclipse due to occur later this month triggered declarations from evangelical Christians that humanity will be wiped out by the event. Given...
But, the ‘Spain’ of Debussy’s Iberia or Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole and L'Heure espagnole was essentially an ‘exoticised’ musical land. Ravel’s mother may have been of Basque origin but Debussy’s experience of the country amounted to a brief day-trip to San Sebastian,...
Composers tend to steer clear of sprawling nineteenth-century tomes, with their vast casts of characters and complex engagement with contemporary social concerns. As far as I know, no-one has yet been brave, or foolhardy, enough to turn Vanity Fair or À la recherche...
Following the success of Barrie Kosky’s Saul, Adelaide festival continues its Glyndebourne partnership with another Australian creative team Internationally renowned Australian opera talent will again headline Adelaide festival in the form of composer Brett Dean’s...
At this Proms performance, the first outside Japan, soloists soprano Sally Matthews and mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura were joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Finchley Children’s Music Group and the New London Children’s Choir under the baton of Kazushi Ozo, who...
He’s now in his 80s but the man who painted Beckett, illustrated Hell and made art out of beard trimmings, is still fired up. As his half-backwards opera Irma returns, we join the great experimentalist for a boozy lunch of artisanal bubble and squeak One day 51 years...
As well as acclaimed performances as Sophie von Faninel in WNO’s Der Rosenkavalier (which OT reviewers admired in Cardiff and Birmingham), Alder has sung Marzelline in the BBC Philharmonic’s Fidelio at the BBC Proms, performed with the Academy of Ancient Music in...
Festival theatre, Edinburgh Fischer is a conductor with great things to say about Mozart but this staged concert performance fails to do justice to the opera’s drama, white-painted extras notwithstanding When is a performance of an opera in the theatre not a...
The Opera Canada Awards (The Rubies) were established in 1999 to recognize and honour outstanding individual achievements on stage and behind the scenes. 2016 Honoureés Sondra RadvanovskyAtom EgoyanGrégoire Legendre Presenters were:Patrick Corrigan (to Grégoire...