Frida, Diego, and the Day of the Dead: Green-Wood Cemetery, Death of Classical, and the Metropolitan Opera Collaborate
The Dybbuk Yael Shuv 19/02/2026S. An-sky’s play The Dybbuk, written in Russian between 1913 and 1916 and later translated into Yiddish by the author...
Aida Nicole Pezza 29/01/2026Aida is one of those operas that must elicit an immediate ‘wow’ effect; a good production is one that delivers...
Eugene Onegin Olivia Hurton 29/01/2026When Tchaikovsky set himself the task of adapting Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin into an opera, he had clear ideas...
Die Walküre Josi Steinfeld 29/01/2026In 2025, the Opéra de Monte-Carlo and the Royal Opera and Ballet each launched new Ring cycles with Das Rheingold....
Iolanta Yael Shuv 21/01/2026Iolanta was the final opera composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. This one-act lyric work premiered on 18 December 1892, just...
Don’t Tell Mum (אף מילה לאמא ) Rivka Jacobson 15/01/2026Presented at Beit Lessin Theatre, one of Tel Aviv’s leading venues for contemporary Israeli drama, Don’t Tell Mum reflects the theatre’s...
Ariodante Tim Hochstrasser 13/12/2025Without Tunbridge Wells, there would be no Ariodante. Depleted by financial worries and the intrigues of his rivals, Handel snuck...
Wozzeck Miho Uchida 23/11/2025This tragedy-driven opera, based on Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck (1837), tells the story of Wozzeck, a soldier brutally mistreated by the...
Dido and Aeneas Yael Shuv 19/11/2025Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas is among the most frequently performed Baroque operas. It is short, requires a modest cast,...
La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025Claus Guth’s once-controversial, space-set Bohème returns to Paris to a packed, euphoric house. What felt scandalous in 2017 now reads...
