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...
Madama Butterfly Owen Davies 12/06/2025This opera may be one of Puccini’s finest musically but the story is centred on another of his doomed heroines...
Saul Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2025As a veteran browser of second-hand bookshops, I grew used to seeing piles of faded old Novello vocal scores of...
Simon Boccanegra Josi Steinfeld 09/06/2025This Simon Boccanegra is a triumph: musically rich, theatrically bold, and imaginatively staged. With a top-tier cast, innovative design, and...
