Reviewer's Rating Don Carlo Shmuel Ben-Tovim 18/03/2018This was a classic opera production, a remake of original direction and design made for several Spanish opera companies. The...
Reviewer's Rating A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mel Cooper 10/03/2018I am something of a fan of Benjamin Britten’s opera of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I like the music, the...
Reviewer's Rating From the House of the Dead Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2018‘In every creature, a spark of God’ wrote the composer on the title page of this, his last opera, now...
Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer) Alina Bottez 10/03/2018Otto Schenk’s production is by now a classic. Having premiered in 1972, it is one of the longest-running opera productions...
Reviewer's Rating Giulio Cesare Owen Davies 09/03/2018John Coke and his team at Bury Court have conjured up a minor miracle with a production of Giulio Cesare...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2018The Beast from the East nearly ruined the first night of ETO’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro. There...
Reviewer's Rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Alina Bottez 05/03/2018It seems that the tumultuous fate of Somma’s libretto, moved to three different settings, was not enough. Director Erath makes...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Marc Aronson 23/02/2018Attending the premier of the revival of Giacomo Rossini’s Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera the week after Black Panther opened...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Reviewer's Rating Iolanthe Richard Voyce 15/02/2018Forget Hamilton. There’s a new ‘hot ticket’ in town, and it is, of all things, Iolanthe at the ENO! Appearing...
