La Cambiale di Matrimonio and Soirées Musicales Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro – 2025 Josi Steinfeld 01/09/2025
Taj Mahal Tim Hochstrasser 15/07/2025It is surprising that no one has previously considered an opera on this richly dramatic period of Indian history. With...
Les Indes Galantes Tim Hochstrasser 07/07/2025Les Indes Galantes (The Amorous Indies) receives here its first fully-staged production in this country, which is a huge reason...
Le Nozze di Figaro Marc Berman 01/07/2025Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro is the quintessential Glyndebourne opera. It opened the house in 1934 and had been performed...
Fidelio Marc Berman 30/06/2025The bucolic surroundings of Garsington Opera – complete with stately home, sumptuous gardens, a lake and its own herd of...
Trial by Jury & A Matter of Misconduct Tim Hochstrasser 29/06/2025This is a truly delightful double-bill, with both one-act dramas, old and new, providing just the jaunty pep and satirical...
Lucia and Enrico – what happened? Tim Hochstrasser 24/06/2025One of the defining features of Opera in Song at Holland Park is imaginative programming, and this second recital for...
The Merry Widow Owen Davies 24/06/2025This wonderful bit of nonsense was first performed in Austria just before Christmas 1905. It is a Viennese operetta with...
Rodelinda Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2025Handel’s Rodelinda (1725) was written at the apogee of his operatic career, when Italian opera seria and Handel’s own contributions...
Die Fledermaus Tim Hochstrasser 23/06/2025I always think of this operetta as a show for the end of the year. The action is set on...
Mazeppa Tim Hochstrasser 19/06/2025It is truly surprising that Mazeppa (1884) is not better known. It is work of Tchaikovsky’s maturity and full of...
