The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Eine florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi Miho Uchida 05/02/2025Jun Aguni’s spectacular Florentine double bill, Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Gianni Schicchi, made a triumphant return after...
La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
La Rondine (The Swallow) Josi Steinfeld 16/12/2024As Puccini’s centenary year continues, the world has been treated to a wide array of his works, and La Rondine,...
Guillaume Tell Miho Uchida 04/12/2024Rossini’s final opera, Guillaume Tell, was recently staged at The New National Theatre Tokyo in its original French for the...
Tosca Josi Steinfeld 02/12/2024Puccini was so captivated by Sardou’s play La Tosca (performed in French by Sarah Bernhardt), that, despite not understanding a...
La Bohème Josi Steinfeld 18/11/2024In March 1893, shortly after the premiere of Manon Lescaut, Puccini met fellow composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo in a café. Puccini...
The Tales of Hoffmann Josi Steinfeld 18/11/2024Offenbach’s final opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), presents three fantastical stories from the life of the poet...
