Written on Skin review – spare staging highlights richness of Benjamin’s opera
West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge The Melos Sinfonia’s thrilling concert performance of George...
La Traviata review – McVicar’s Verdi is a gorgeous but stilted visual treat
By: Rowena Smith for the Guardian (UK) Theatre Royal, Glasgow David McVicar’s staging of La...
Lucy Worsley’s Nights at the Opera review – dressing up, singing and sex
This brilliant show flitted from Covent Garden to Venice to Vienna and Milan in pursuit of the...
The Guardian view on the ‘yellowface’ casting row: classical music has a diversity problem | Editorial
The pulling of Peter Eötvös’s opera The Golden Dragon from the Hackney Empire must provoke some...
Les Vêpres Siciliennes review – an electrifying night at the Opéra
Royal Opera House, London Stefan Herheim’s take on Verdi is restless, lurid and saturated with the...
Review: The Elixir of Love at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Oct. 11 2017
Smalltown Canada setting Donizetti’s rustic melodramma giocoso (comic opera) The Elixir of...
