Reviewer's rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 07/11/2021Mozart’s masterpiece, the Marriage of Figaro, is a work of such musical beauty and comic invention that it can always...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute חליל הקסם Yael Shuv 06/11/2021Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” offers its own challenges. Along with some of the most beautiful music ever composed, there are...
Reviewer's rating Roberto Devereux Tim Hochstrasser 05/11/2021With ‘Six’ and ‘The Mirror and the Light’ running in the West End it is clear that our appetite the...
Reviewer's rating Madam Butterfly Owen Davies 31/10/2021Madam Butterfly is one of the most performed operas today and yet one of the most difficult to stage in...
Reviewer's rating La Traviata Rivka Jacobson 29/10/2021In this stupendous revival of Richard Eyre’s 1994 production of La Traviata at the Royal Opera House, the 27 years...
100 Satyagraha Rivka Jacobson 23/10/2021Philip Glass’s music can be a marvellous tonic. English National Opera 2007 production of Philip Glass’s Satyagraha was first staged...
Reviewer's rating A Splinter of Ice Emma Burnell 17/10/2021It is 1987 and the Soviet Union is not long for this world. Neither – it turns out – were...
Reviewer's rating Jenůfa Tim Hochstrasser 29/09/2021Jenůfa (1904) is Janáček’s first mature opera, but still underperformed in comparison with the five masterpieces that follow it. Though...
Reviewer's rating Piazzolla Project Tim Hochstrasser 17/09/2021This year’s Grimeborn festival came to an end on Sunday with an uplifting survey of the career and work of...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto Rivka Jacobson 15/09/2021An air of some excitement and anticipation hangs in the packed Royal Opera House’s auditorium. This is the first performance...
