Frida, Diego, and the Day of the Dead: Green-Wood Cemetery, Death of Classical, and the Metropolitan Opera Collaborate
La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Soirées Musicales Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro – 2025 Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2025
Zelmira Rossini Opera Festival 2025 Josi Steinfeld 31/08/2025Rossini’s Zelmira, last composed for Naples in 1822, was once a staple at one of Europe’s great operatic centres, before...
Semele Soyoon Koo 30/08/2025Handel’s Semele (1744) was met with controversy at its premiere for presenting secular opera in the guise of sacred oratorio....
Faustus in Africa! Ben Reiss 23/08/2025The legend of Faust – an ambitious man dissatisfied with life who strikes a deal with the Devil, who serves...
Sense & Sensibility. The Musical Julie Peakman 20/08/2025Wow it’s an opera! The opening song jolts our attention as players start to sing ‘Its Society’. The title of...
Mary, Queen of Scots Ben Reiss 18/08/2025The life of Mary, Queen of Scots lends itself to endless retelling, being an inherently dramatic tale of ambition, conflict...
Tristan and Isolde Tim Hochstrasser 16/08/2025After the success of the Jonathan Dove chamber arrangement of The Ring, and the recent widely praised production by Regent’s Park...
Book of Mountains and Seas Ben Reiss 15/08/2025Out of a deep black stage, the faces of six female singers appear, each lit from above with a single...
La Distance Thibault Elie 05/08/2025Since taking over as director of the Festival d’Avignon, Tiago Rodrigues has staged one new play per year as part...
Les Incrédules (The Incredulous) Thibault Elie 31/07/2025With Les Incrédules, director Samuel Achache returns to the Festival d’Avignon with his most ambitious project to date: a two-hour...
La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 25/07/2025La Traviata—a romantic-sounding Italian title that translates bluntly as ‘The Fallen Woman’—tells the story of Violetta, a high-class courtesan kept...
