Reviewer's Rating Pagliacci Yael Shuv 04/03/2022Before it all started, the big screen in front of the stage turned blue and yellow. With it a message...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Teddy Hempstead 21/02/2022Since its first performance, in 1924, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen has enjoyed the kind of philosophical tug-of-war usually reserved...
Reviewer's rating Les Indes Galantes Owen Davies 17/02/2022Marcio da Silva’s groundbreaking company Ensemble Orquesta (EO) is fast developing an enviable reputation for bringing rare baroque treasures to...
Reviewer's rating Manon Miho Uchida 14/02/2022Manon is Jules Massenet’s most popular opera, and along with Carmen and Faust, stands as one of French opera’s iconic...
Reviewer's rating Yevgeni Onegin Yael Shuv 08/01/2022Yevgeni Onegin is a truly great opera, titled after a male character that inflicts tragedy. Whereas most heroes fall desperately...
Reviewer's rating Nabucco Tim Hochstrasser 21/12/2021This opera was Verdi’s breakthrough work in 1842, setting the pattern for many of his preoccupations and emphases in the...
Reviewer's rating Julius Caesar Rivka Jacobson 10/12/2021Teatro dell’Opera Di Roma opens its new season with the world’s premier of Julius Caesar, a fitting subject to this...
Reviewer's rating Tosca Rivka Jacobson 08/12/2021This is one of the most performed operas. It was first staged in this opera house with the same set...
Reviewer's rating Macbeth Tim Hochstrasser 17/11/2021‘Macbeth’ is the first of Verdi’s three settings of Shakespeare’s plays, each of them contrasted and remarkable in their own...
Reviewer's rating The Bear Tim Hochstrasser 09/11/2021Opera Holland Park has not gone into its winter hibernation by any means. They are currently streaming a production of...
