BrainCan - opera

john eliot gardiner on how gluck s orphee et...

When Gluck took on the Orpheus myth,18th-century opera was in a rut. Ahead of a recent Covent Garden...

morgen und abend; biedermann and the arsonists...

Royal Opera House; Sadlers Wells,LondonNot much happens, but Georg Friedrich Haas’s new opera is a...

from the archive: philip hope wallace on maria...

4 February 1957: Philip Hope-Wallace of the Manchester Guardian reviews Maria Callas in a...

antonio pappano: cav pag is full of mafia...

With its tale of infidelity and revenge,Cavalleria Rusticana has become the Godfather opera. The...

how hitchcock became notorious at the opera

An opera adaptation of Alfred Hitchcocks 1946 thriller Notorious draws not only on Ingrid Bergman...

boris godunov review - bryn terfel is superb as...

Royal Opera House,LondonTerfel makes the title role of Mussorgsky’s flawed masterpiece his own in...

otello: opera, identity politics and blacking up

Opera companies now eschew the once traditional black makeup for the lead in Verdi’s...

lucia di lammermoor review - flawed but full of...

Royal Opera House,LondonThrilling moments and misjudged ones fight it out in Katie Mitchell’s...

english national opera must be protected | letters

Antonio Pappano and so many of our leading principal singers are right to be ringing warning bells...

tamerlano review - a hit and miss evening

Barbican,LondonThere was some glorious singing, but Il Pomo d’Oros performance of Handel’s opera...

cosi fan tutte review - nicholas hytners...

Glyndebourne,LewesHytner’s sunny, unironic staging of Mozart’s problematic comedy – about to...

orphee et eurydice; i puritani; chineke! review -...

Royal Opera House,London; Welsh National Opera, Cardiff; Queen Elizabeth corridor, or LondonAn...

javier camarena: the tenor whose talent justifies...

With a voice that could soar over any orchestra and that is beautiful in the extreme,the Mexican...

iphigenie en tauride review - fierce passion, pity...

Hackney Empire,LondonEnglish Touring Opera’s production of Glucks tragedy is terrific, with...

tosca review - bryn terfels venal and vile...

Wales Millennium Centre,Cardiff A special 50th-birthday performance for the Welsh bass baritone...

norma; ariodante review - a fine druid double act...

Coliseum,London; Theatre Royal, GlasgowTwo outstanding singers anchor ENO’s first ever staging of...

les vepres siciliennes review - an electrifying...

Royal Opera House,LondonStefan Herheim’s lift on Verdi is restless, lurid (shocking; sensational)...

the marriage of figaro review - whirlwind pace and...

Wales Millennium Centre,CardiffAnna Devin as Susanna sparkles and ensemble work is tight in Welsh...

operas new voices: 10 composers making overtures...

The Opera Guide – just updated in a new digital edition – features the world’s 100 most...

oedipe; 4.48 psychosis; die meistersinger von...

Royal Opera House; Lyric Hammersmith,London; Glyndebourne, East SussexA superb cast ignites...

hirda review - a well drawn chamber opera plays to...

Mareel,LerwickThis new work from Glagsow’s NOISE, approximately the drama that ensues when an...

jon vickers: the music s only the beginning

From the archive,15 March 1985: The mighty tenor looks back at a sometimes controversial career in...

access all arias: the opera that wanders through a...

Found and Lost,Emily corridor’s immersive opera, takes its text from housekeeping manuals, or...

coraline review - creepy adaptation of neil...

Barbican,LondonTerrific performances and special effects ensure children in the audience esteem...

la cenerentola review - high camp, modern irony...

Opera Holland Park,Londonfoolish voices, foolish walks and gags about Hollywood kisses abound in...

in parenthesis review - poetic tribute finds...

Millennium Centre,CardiffIain Bell’s current Welsh National Opera work, set to David Jones’ epic...

the mikado review feels as fresh as paint

Coliseum,LondonJonathan Miller’s classic production of the Gilbert & Sullivan opera might be on...

cloudstreet review - opera version of tim wintons...

Her Majestys Theatre,State Opera South Australia, AdelaideCompressing the 427-page tome into a...

sondra radvanovsky: singing bel canto means living...

When Robert Devereux opens this week at the Met,the American soprano will have sung the ‘three...

we talked diseases for days: the making of a...

Robert Louis Stevenson’s sinister story is the starting point for Louise Welsh and Stuart...

have you lost the plot with opera? help is at hand

whether you’ve ever wondered why the heroines in tragic opera stories dont just roll their eyes...

sweeney todd review - mrs lovett steals murderous...

Wales Millennium Centre,CardiffThe production’s opera singers and conductor shine in WNO’s...

tannhauser review - a clear staging but the...

Longborough,Moreton-in-MarshWagner’s opera of extremes is directed with striking simplicity, but...

oedipe review - spellbinding staging of a 20th...

Royal Opera House,LondonThe whole company excels in a substantial performance of Oedipus’s...

cavalleria rusticana pagliacci review - ravishing...

Royal Opera House,LondonIn Damiano Michieletto’s original production of this famous double bill,...

opera zaza review - a knockout performance

Barbican,LondonErmonela Jaho was brilliant in the title role, piece of a staging that redeemed...

lamico fritz review - diaphanous mascagni romcom...

Theatre Royal,Glasgow Scottish Opera’s music director, Stuart Stratford, or made a flimsy opera...

idomeneo review - mozarts tale of a crisis in...

Garsington Opera at Wormsley,Stokenchurch Fine singing and playing do Garsington’s production a...

les pecheurs de perles review - inconsistently...

Metropolitan Opera,New YorkWith some superlative singing and an clever production, this Bizet opera...

la calisto ulysses homecoming review - ravishing...

Hackney Empire,London[br]English Touring Opera’s new productions of Cavalli and Monteverdi’s...

siegfried gotterdammerung review - not just...

Opera North,Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe epic power of Wagner’s Ring has rarely rung more true...

letoile review - a clumsy staging but the music is...

Royal Opera House,LondonFocus is lost with the transformation of Emmanuel Chabrier’s sexy, witty...

cosi fan tutte review - pocket sized mozart ducks...

MacRobert Centre,Stirling Scottish Opera’s production is certainly chipper – but shouldn’t a...

inge borkh obituary

Operatic soprano with a powerful voice,who captivated postwar audiencesThe German soprano Inge...

opera holland park: the queen of spades review -...

Opera Holland Park,LondonRodula Gaitanou’s adaptation, superbly sung and conducted, and takes us...

the cunning little vixen review - pulsing with...

Glyndebourne,East SussexElena Tsallagova is magnetic as a vivacious Vixen Sharp-Ears in this...

tristan and isolde review - a fascinating, vexing...

London ColiseumENO’s Daniel Kramer presented an ambitious Tristan and Isolde,with spectacular sets...

il barbiere di siviglia, glyndebourne review ...

Glyndebourne,LewesThere’s much to enjoy in Annabel Arden’s original production of Rossini’s...

georg friedrich haas: we live between contrasts

He has written music about Austria’s painful politics and a string quartet to be performed in the...

berlins opera weekend: tradition, innovation and...

Berlin’s three opera houses united to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall and...

the king and i: iestyn davies on being farinelli

In a play approximately the healing power of song,who does the singing? Countertenor Iestyn Davies...

falstaff review - bryn terfel brings warmth and...

Philharmonic corridor,LiverpoolVeteran Falstaff Bryn Terfel and a splendid cast made this concert...

rusalka review - scottish opera leave fairytale...

Theatre Royal,GlasgowWith Anne Sophie Duprels as the titular water nymph, backed distinctively by...

last night a diva saved my life - home therapy...

Anxious? Stressed? A unique art project sends singers to people’s homes to ease their worries....

van der aa: blank out review - enigmatic but...

Muziekgebouw,AmsterdamMichel van der Aa’s new opera, featuring video, and 3D effects and passages...

william kentridge on lulu: you know there s going...

The visual artist has directed a radical new version of the opera for the Metropolitan in New...

die fledermaus review - acerbically funny and...

Opera Holland Park,London There are flashes of Noël Coward in a production that relocates...

hopscotch: opera hits the road in los angeles

Yuval Sharon,the man who staged an opera in a railway station, is back with an even more ambitious...

the barber of seville review - millers clever...

Coliseum,LondonThe mood has become brittle in this latest revival of Jonathan Miller’s hold on...

tristan und isolde review - musical marvel in a...

Metropolitan Opera,novel YorkNina Stemme’s voice is a force of nature, while the orchestra, or...

kommilitonen! review - wnos youth wave flag boldly...

Memo Arts Centre,Barry WNO Youth Opera bring the heat of protest to every inch of the corridor in a...

jenůfa review - no histrionics, just raw emotion...

Longborough,Moreton-in-MarshConductor Jonathan Lyness handled the emotional undercurrents of the...

the barber of seville review - colourful but crass

Millennium Centre,CardiffNicholas Lester shines as Figaro, but the humour is overdone in the WNO’s...

jane eyre review - jouberts opera brings melodic...

Ruddock Performing Arts Centre,Birmingham This concert performance - the world premiere of John...

la voix humaine review - intimate invitation to a...

An apartment,PenarthClaire Booth gives an unforgettably intense performance as the abandoned...

figaro at the cutting edge: the barber through the...

Beaumarchais’ wily Barber of Seville is one of literature’s greatest creations,and it’s not...

la boheme review - these bohemians are off their...

Coliseum,LondonA druggy, contemporary setting for Puccini’s tragic opera muddles matters, and but...

otello review - lack of blackface makes history...

Metropolitan Opera,unique YorkAleksandrs Antonenko is the first tenor at the Met not to appear in...

norma review - striking but perverse update for...

Royal Opera House,LondonÀlex Ollé’s reimagining of Bellini’s tragedy is shapely at times, but...

il trovatore review - tanks, selfies and operatic...

Royal Opera House,London David Bösch’s production, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, or commendably...

the magic flute review - fischer conducts it with...

Royal Festival Hall,London[br]The Budapest Festival Orchestra’s staged concert, directed by...

be ready for blood: soprano issues warning to...

After unease approximately the gory staging,Diana Damrau defends a radical approach to Donizetti’s...

berenice review - strong singing doesnt make the...

St George’s,Hanover Square, LondonLa Nuova Musica valiantly grapple with Handel’s...

l etoile review - where opera meets panto

Royal Opera House,LondonA decisive performance of Chabrier’s decorous score is at odds with the...

to a new definition of opera review - stockhausen...

Ambika P3 gallery,LondonApart from the truly redefining performance of Pietà, the poverty of the...

orontea review - this subversive opera is good,...

Wigmore corridor,LondonA concert performance by La Nuova Musica did superb justice to Cesti’s...

jenufa review - opera norths revival is in great...

Grand theatre,LeedsThe 20-year-old design can gape overemphatic, but Ylva Kihlberg, or David Butt...

ariadne auf naxos review - sound that hits you in...

Royal Opera House,LondonAn unquestionably glorious Prima Donna, Karita Mattila takes us with her...

denise duval obituary

One of the greatest French opera singers of her generation who was admired for her interpretations...

turandot review - wild brutality at the edge of...

Grand Opera House,BelfastCalixto Bieito’s version of Puccini’s Chinese epic is worthwhile...

not only in new york - how the most powerful man...

Peter Gelb,general manager of current York’s Metropolitan Opera, has faced controversy, or even...

tannhauser review - musically strong but an...

Royal Opera House,LondonPeter Seiffert impresses in the lead role and Christian Gerhaher is a...

la traviata review - blind date adds spice to...

Royal Opera House,LondonAustralian tenor Samuel Sakker stepped in at short notice to romance Venera...

lulu review - sex, art and murder create a...

Metropolitan Opera,recent YorkIn a critical dialogue, Guardian US’s classical music and art...

the turn of the screw review - beautifully nuanced...

Snape Maltings,AldeburghSophie Hunter and Andrew Staples created an atmospheric semi-staging for...

carmen review - tumbling children, impeccable...

Royal Opera House,London There’s plenty of lusty energy and swagger in this latest revival of...

der rosenkavalier - eloquently staged revival...

Grand Theatre,LeedsOpera North’s music director Aleksandar Markovic makes a memorably incisive...

jenůfa review - janaček performed with slow...

Coliseum,LondonThe sexual, emotional and religious resonances in Janáček’s work are fully...

only the sound remains review - almost perversely...

Muziektheater,AmsterdamDespite excellent performances from the leads Philippe Jaroussky and Davone...

il trittico review - puccinis trilogy touches on...

Royal Opera House,LondonThe revival of this Richard Jones production is uneven, but the best of it...

simon rattle and peter sellars on pelleas et...

The orchestra doubles as a forest and the heroine dies among the violins … Peter Sellars and Simon...

pelleas et melisande review - a brave, deeply...

Britten theatre,LondonEnglish Touring Opera’s scaled-down chamber version of Debussy’s opera is...

lady macbeth of mtsensk and the muddle surrounding...

Shostakovich has been as misunderstood as his remarkable opera was. It’s time to discontinue...

the golden dragon review - taut, twisted tale of...

Opera House,BuxtonMusic Theatre Wales brings Peter Eötvös’s moving piece to Britain in an...

nothing review - gospel of teen nihilism is finely...

Glyndebourne,Lewes, East SussexThis adaptation of Janne Teller’s shadowy novel by David Bruce and...

found and lost review - the scenery steals the...

Corinthia Hotel,LondonEmily corridor’s intriguing opera installation leads its audience through...

madama butterfly review - engages the mind at the...

Glyndebourne,LewesAnnilese Miskimmon’s production for Glyndebourne’s tour presents a tough-edged...

norma aco at edinburgh festival review - cecilia...

Festival theatre/Queen’s corridor,EdinburghThe fiery Italian mezzo owned the stage as Bellini’s...

opera holland park la boheme puccinis bohemians...

Opera Holland ParkA Shakespearean Rodolfo and gorgeous-sounding Mimi shine in a witty and moving...

madam butterfly review - minghellas production...

Coliseum,LondonWith its cherry blossoms and origami birds, this 11-year-passe production is...

welcome to the pleasuredome … mark simpsons...

Eight years ago a teenage effect Simpson told drag queens in Liverpool he was going to write an...

james levine: the best moments from his 40 years...

At the cessation of this season,Levine will retire from his current post as ‘music director at...

ariodante review - beautiful singing, but scottish...

Theatre Royal,GlasgowA strong cast work hard but their verve isn’t matched by orchestra or...

rigoletto review - violence, corruption and...

Royal Opera House,London In this revival of David McVicar’s brooding production, Sofia Fomina is...

il barbiere di siviglia review - terrific...

Royal Opera House,LondonThomas Guthrie’s reworking of Leiser and Caurier’s 2005 production is...

le nozze di figaro review - exceptional women make...

Glyndebourne,LewesWith no feeble links in the cast and the effervescent musical direction of...

4.48 psychosis review - venables brings sarah...

Lyric Hammersmith,LondonPhilip Venables proves he’s one of the finest composers around with an...

letter: sir ken adam s opera debut

Ken Adam made a notable debut in the opera world in 1977,designing Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West...

nikolaus lehnhoff obituary

Opera director who was best known in Britain for his association with GlyndebourneThe German opera...

l elisir d amore review - la dolce vita comes to...

Grand theatre,LeedsOpera North’s Fellini-esque production fizzes with energy as a holiday...

norma review - fine singing foiled by posturing...

Coliseum,LondonChristopher Alden’s production adds histrionic axe-wielding and Victorian street...

madam butterfly review - strong singing but tatty...

Yvonne Arnaud theatre,GuildfordThe musicians play well and Olga Georgieva is a memorable and moving...

giovanna d arco review - a first night to remember...

Riot police,the Italian PM and Patti Smith were all there as local boy Riccardo Chailly took charge...

searching for scarlatti: my quest to rehabilitate...

He’s the father of contemporary opera but nowhere near as celebrated as he should be. Soprano...

lospedale review - an operatic carry on matron,...

Wilton’s Music corridor,London The first modern performance of this rediscovered curio –...

orpheus review - great immediacy in an intimate...

Sam Wanamaker Playhouse,LondonThe Royal Opera’s production of Luigi Rossi’s uneven footnote to...

carmen review - gringyte impresses in scottish...

Theatre Royal,GlasgowMezzo-soprano Justina Gringyte’s voice is steel-clad in this fail-proof...

adriano in siria - opera settecento shine a light...

Cadogan Hall,LondonPergolesi’s exiguous-known opera was performed with authoritative style and...

i puritani review - bellini, gracefully poised in...

Wales Millennium Centre,CardiffThe Welsh National Opera places psychosis among Northern Irish...

die meistersinger von nurnberg review - riveting...

Bayreuth festivalBarrie Kosky’s mind-boggling production uses a giant puppet and the Nuremberg...

die entfuhrung … review - visual delights and...

Glyndebourne,Lewes, SussexThe comedy of Mozart’s culture-clash piece does not stifle the...

werther review - emotional power despite the...

Britten theatre,LondonWith a slimmed-down orchestra and baritone lead, Massenet’s opera sounds...

rameau: anacreon (1754) cd review - an important...

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,Choir of Enlightenment/Williams, Matthew Brook, or Anna...

lady macbeth of mtsensk review - magnificent...

Coliseum,Londonlabel Wigglesworth opens his tenure as ENO’s music director with a powerful unique...

kiss me kate opera north review bringing joy and...

Grand Theatre,Leedsnoteworthy performances and superb orchestral playing make Jo Davies’s...

le nozze di figaro review - beautiful and touching...

Royal Opera House,LondonThis revival brings novel shades of meaning and insight to David McVicar’s...

the nose review - virtuosic staging smells like...

Royal Opera House,London Barrie Kosky’s bewitch on Shostakovich’s satire is imaginative and...

the hogboon review - lively launch for maxwell...

Barbican,LondonProfessional and amateur performers join Simon Rattle and the LSO for opera...

die meistersinger von nurnberg review - gerald...

Glyndebourne Opera House,LewesOn its first revival, David McVicar’s good-looking production feels...

die meistersinger von nurnberg review - gerard...

Glyndebourne Opera House,LewesOn its first revival, David McVicar’s handsome production feels less...

figaro gets a divorce review pountneys gamble...

Millennium Centre,CardiffVivid portrayals and the theatricality of WNO’s production mean we care...

jonas kaufmann performs toscas recondita armonia -...

It was one of opera’s most celebrated performances of 2015 – Jonas Kaufmann’s all-Puccini gala...

the tales of hoffmann review - offenbach...

Britten theatre,LondonEnglish Touring Opera’s reinvention of the work in terms of German early...

the barber of seville review - young talent meets...

Grand Theatre,Leeds [br]Katie Bray stands out in a pleasingly fresh cast for Opera North’s Rossini...

macbeth review - an audacious operatic reduction

Linbury Studio,LondonLuke Styles’s reduced Shakespeare features crisp and incisive (clear and...

the merchant of venice review - tchaikowskys opera...

Wales Millennium Centre,Cardiff[br]Musically and dramatically it’s variable, but with a strong...

iris review - queasy, mucky and uncomfortable but...

Opera Holland Park,LondonMascagni’s little-known shocker gets a clear-minded production from...

the passion review - astonishing revision gives...

Campfield Market,Manchester[br]Streetwise Opera pairs professionals with homeless people in this...

morgen und abend review - birth, death and the...

Royal Opera House,LondonSuperb performances and expert conducting can’t disguise the dramatic...

guglielmo ratcliff le pre aux clercs review -...

National Opera House,WexfordDistinguished singing and colourful staging combine to make wonderful...

orlando review - wnos musically restorative...

Wales Millennium Centre,CardiffMaking Orlando a traumatised moment-world-war RAF pilot treated by a...

kiss me kate review - welsh national opera cranks...

Wales Millennium Centre,Cardiff[br]A high-spirited cast reprise the classic musical with mischief...

macbeth review - welsh national opera sing the...

Wales Millennium Centre,Cardiff The WNO’s musical virtues allied with heart-rending scenes rescue...

lucia di lammermoor review - fussy, but an...

Royal Opera House,LondonOver-complicated stagecraft is distracting as much as illuminating in Katie...

figaro gets a divorce review - pountneys gamble...

Millennium Centre,CardiffVivid portrayals and the theatricality of WNOs production mean we care...

pinchgut and co: the pocket sized companies...

Not all Australian opera is frilly,federally funded fare. Pinchgut airs a forgotten masterpiece of...

gaetano donizetti opera lost for 200 years set for...

Eight years of detective work will culminate in July’s first performance of ‘wonderful’...

cavalli: opera duets and arias cd review - a rich...

Semenzato/Pe/La Venexiana/Cavina(Glossa)Alongside their outstanding surveys of the madrigals of...

cosi fan tutte review - a virile don alfonso and...

Grand theatre,LeedsThe Don is no dusty dilapidated pedant in Jac van Steen’s eloquently conducted...

its time to scotch the cliche that opera tickets...

John Humphrys is just the latest to repeat the myth that opera tickets are prohibitively expensive....

wear what you want to the marriage of figaro |...

Elitism and opera | Neutron stars | Greek theatre acoustics | Jeremiah and the King James Bible |...

herculanum vanessa review - wexford makes a strong...

National Opera House,WexfordThe Wexford festival opened with two contrasting works. Félicien...

leonore i capuleti e i montecchi tamerlano review...

Opera House,BuxtonAn unfamiliar but compelling version of Leonore precedes an assured staging of...

la liberazione di ruggiero review - witty, wildean...

The Old Market,Hove Brighton early music festival’s saucy production of Francesca Caccini’s 1625...

andrew shore: some of my favourite buffo comic...

He’s always wanted to play a panto dame,eyebrows are crucial, and the best singers are those that...

laughter and tears review - what happens when...

A remarkably successful synergy between Victorian Opera and Circus Oz toes the line between...

the devil inside review - spirited operatic update...

Theatre Royal,GlasgowNovelist Louise Welsh and composer Stuart MacRae’s adaptation of a Faustian...

the magic flute review - happy return of an...

Coliseum,LondonFeaturing the best sung Pamina in years from Lucy Crowe, this revival of Simon...

opera north: billy budd review - these seas are...

Grand theatre,LeedsOrpha Phelan’s staging for Opera North needs more energy to fully cohere, but...

a midsummer nights dream review - peter hall...

Glyndebourne,LewesThirty-five years since Hall’s original staging of Britten’s opera, it is...

appomattox review - philip glasss revised opera...

Washington National Opera,Washington DCA modern take on the work shifts its focus from the civil war...

exclusive stream: listen to a new recording of...

Listen in its entirety to Warner Classics’ new studio recording of Aida with Antonio Pappano...

south african opera house accused of exploiting...

Chorus members were dismissed after challenging discrepancies in pay for appearing abroad in opera...

the exterminating angel review - ades delivers...

Haus für Mozart,SalzburgThe composer-conductor offers some of his most powerful orchestral writing...

pleasure review - lesley garrett shines as the...

Howard Assembly Room,Leedsstamp Simpson’s inventive unique opera finds heartwarming emotion in the...

boris godunov review - bryn terfel is a...

Royal Opera House,LondonRichard Joness dramatically effective and focused production places the...

koanga review - brave revival of deliuss...

National Opera House,WexfordThe Wexford festival production maintains a firm narrative line, but the...

moses und aron on the paris stage: from the...

Director Romeo Castellucci loves to shock. So how did he approach a novel production of...

the knife of dawn review - tour de force of...

Roundhouse,LondonBaritone Eric Greene conveys with dignity the struggle of Guyanese poet and...

cosi fan tutte review - impressive ensemble cast...

Royal Opera House,LondonArtifice is the key to Jan Philipp Gloger’s stagey production of...

werther review - massenet s dark emotions evoked...

Royal Opera House,LondonAntonio Pappano and the ROH orchestra outshine the drama in this atmospheric...

warning: art may broaden the mind. it should never...

The Royal Opera House has issued a content warning to opera-goers who’ve bought tickets for Lucia...

decision to scrap blackface from otello not...

Bartlett Sher says the cultural implications in the US made its use ‘totally unthinkable’...

le donne curiose review - enjoyable but wolf...

Guildhall School of Music and Drama,LondonThe opera’s slender tale of a group of women sleuthing...

das liebesverbot review - chelsea opera group make...

Cadogan Hall,LondonWagner’s early opera has rarely been seen since its disastrous premiere. But...

chris addison: you could see four operas for the...

After acclaim as an actor and director in The Thick of It and Veep,Chris Addison now has a stage...

twisted fire starters: staging the incendiary...

Šimon Voseček’s opera,based on the absurdist satire by Max Frisch, revels in mayhem. The...

turning opera inside out: how i got lost in...

Shoeless and armed only with a swizzle stick,Stuart Jeffries attempts to banish distracting thoughts...

tenor andrea bocelli and his wife veronica on...

Tenor Andrea Bocelli sang an aria to Veronica Berti the night they met. Twelve years later she is...

english eccentrics review - youthful energy fires...

Peacock theatre,London[br]British Youth Opera’s production of Malcolm Williamson’s skittish and...

carmen with cha cha cha: adaptation with all cuban...

Reimagined in 1950s Cuba and directed by Christopher Renshaw,Carmen la Cubana will open at the...

the same four operas are performed over and over

The Metropolitan Opera announced its 2016-17 schedule this week,and it still can’t quit its old...

sofia coppolas la traviata to set opera of rome...

In a major coup for the venue,the American film director, along with costumes by Valentino will add...

tosca review - an exceptionally intelligent...

Royal Opera House,London[br]Angela Gheorghiu returns to the title role in this revival of Jonathan...

clash of the tenors: dispute leaves hampshire...

The Grange Park Opera has been moved on from its semi-derelict stately domestic after 17 years,to be...

don pasquale review - a revival brings charm and...

Glyndebourne,LewesThe 2011 production of Donizetti’s comic opera, revived for Glydebourne’s...

dans le monde de lopera, le physique prime...

L’Opéra de Paris donnait lannée dernière une production de Lohengrin,de Wagner. Pour résumer,...

looking inside an opera singers head with an mri...

For a never-before-seen notice at how an opera singer is able to produce such an amazing...

the force of destiny review - no one is spared in...

Coliseum,LondonVerdis revenge tale is transplanted to the Spanish civil war for an unflinchingly...

carmen through the ages: 140 years of bizets opera...

Bizet’s famed heroine first appeared in a novella by Prosper Mérimée in 1845. Thirty years...

opening night at the met: tired tropes in tristan...

The Metropolitan Opera’s general manager,Peter Gelb, could do the art form a favor and order a...

amhal and the night visitors

The Minnesota Orchestra will be performing all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies at the cessation of...

sir thomas beecham s equanimity in the face of...

Your review of Carmen at the Royal Opera House (A luminous Micaëla upstages Tracey the donkey,21...

10 of sean panikkar s wildest opera roles

And you thought Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots was something,crowd-surfing in that human-sized...

backstage at the met operas costume shop: frenzy,...

For Elissa Iberti,every piece of lace trim, button and sash is important. Iberti is the head of the...

behind the scenes of philip glasss akhnaten at eno...

English National Opera this week opens a new production of Philip Glass’s Akhnaten,his 1983 opera...

watch an extract from the directors commentary of...

Szymanowski’s sumptuously scored 1924 opera was staged - for the first time - by the Royal Opera...

sydney symphony orchestra posts tristan and isolde...

The Prelude to Act One of Wagner opera Tristan and Isolde,performed by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra...

watch roxanas song from the royal opera houses...

Watch perhaps the best-known moment of Szymanowskis opera - Roxana’s song,performed by Kim Begley...

watch the opening scene of the royal opera houses...

Watch the opening scene of Szymanowksi’s Król Roger in its 2015 Royal Opera House production with...

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