Reviewer's rating Simon Boccanegra Rivka Jacobson 17/11/2018Genoa, 14th century is a backdrop to a political, social and personal drama cradled in the agonies of love, machinations,...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Alina Bottez 07/11/2018Puccini’s Tosca is based on Sardou’s play, which observes Aristotle’s unity of time as its action unfolds over eighteen hours...
Reviewer's rating La Cenerentola Owen Davies 31/10/2018Welsh National Opera has taken two of their productions to the Hippodrome in Bristol, a brave venture given the limitations...
Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Alessandro Zummo 19/10/2018The controversial Victor Hugo’s play, Le roi s’amuse, offered Verdi the opportunity to break with the Italian operatic tradition of...
Reviewer's rating Porgy and Bess John O'Brien 15/10/2018This stunning production of Porgy and Bess, is the outstanding efforts of an ensemble of 40 singers, in a unique...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 11/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Otello Irina Cristina Vasilescu 09/10/2018A new production of Verdi’s Otello, directed by Giancarlo del Monaco, opens the new season at the National Opera House...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 04/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Salome Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2018First performed in 1905, ‘Salome’ was Strauss’ breakthrough opera, and is still perhaps the most startling despite all the later...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Owen Davies 26/09/2018This David McVicar production of Traviata is nearly ten years old now but has lost none of its narrative force...
