Review: A Verlaine Songbook
Today, singers and their pianists are often more willing also to explore repertory by composers...
Oedipe review – Jurowski makes case for Enescu’s ‘lost masterpiece’
Royal Festival Hall, London The anti-Freudian Oedipus opera may not flawless, but this performance...
Khovanshchina review – Russia’s tragedy becomes the world’s in compelling revival
Millennium Centre, Cardiff Welsh National Opera mark the centenary of the 1917 revolutions in this...
Die Zauberflöte at the ROH: radiant and eternal
As we journey from the dungeon-esque darkness of the Queen’s nocturnal demesne towards the...
Senza Sangue/Bluebeard’s Castle; The Damnation of Faust/Stravinsky ballet music – review
Hackney Empire, London/Barbican A gun-toting woman craves revenge in a gloriously tense European...
Opera at Home: A Review of Layla Claire’s Songbird
Lyric soprano Layla Claire, who hails from Penticton, B.C., was a graduate of the Metropolitan...
