Millennium Centre, Cardiff Welsh National Opera’s revival brings David Pountney’s 1982 version...
Reviews
Giulio Cesare and Dardanus review – ETO update Handel and make Rameau feel contemporary
Hackney Empire, London English Touring Opera’s ambitious autumn programme features two baroque...
Così fan tutte review – Nicholas Hytner’s irresistible production takes a bow
Glyndebourne, Lewes Hytner’s sunny, unironic staging of Mozart’s problematic comedy – about to...
The Golden Dragon; Opera: Passion, Power and Politics – review
Birmingham Rep; V&A, London Peter Eötvös’s tragicomic opera about a Chinese immigrant worker...
Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Lyric Opera of Chicago
The roles of Orphée, Eurydice, and Amour are sung by Dmitry Korchak, Adrianna Chuchman, and Lauren...
Review: Arabella at Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Oct. 5 2017
Richard Strauss’s Arabella (1933) had its triumphant Canadian premiere last night, opening the...
Michelle DeYoung, Mahler Symphony no 3 London
The concert was live streamed worldwide, an indication of just how important this concert was, for...
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande CD review – luxury casting and vivid performances under Rattle and Sellars
Kozena/Fink/Gerhaher/Finley/Selig/LSO/LSC/Rattle LSO Live The LSO’s January 2016 performances of...
Schubert: Der Einsame CD review – Young tenor Ilker Arcayürek is in a class on his own
Arcayürek/Lepper (Champs Hill) It’s been a while since we’ve had a debut disc as engaging as this....
King Arthur at the Barbican: a semi-opera for the ‘Brexit Age’
Do we need to know the political context in which a work was created in order to fully appreciate...