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...
Le Sommet Thibault Elie 22/07/2025In Le Sommet, Swiss director Christoph Marthaler brings together six eccentric figures in a remote mountain refuge, crafting a surreal,...
Testament Tim Hochstrasser 19/07/2025For the opening event at this year’s Grimeborn Festival, Green Opera have devised a typically inventive programme comprising Monteverdi’s Il...
BREL Thibault Elie 18/07/2025BREL – Can You Dance to a Legend? Attending a performance at the mythical Carrière de Boulbon, about fifteen kilometers...
Falstaff Owen Davies 16/07/2025Verdi often used Shakespeare dramas for his opera plots, but it was a great surprise that his final work (first...
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...
