Reviewer's Rating Rigoletto Alessandro Zummo 19/10/2018The controversial Victor Hugo’s play, Le roi s’amuse, offered Verdi the opportunity to break with the Italian operatic tradition of...
Reviewer's rating Porgy and Bess John O'Brien 15/10/2018This stunning production of Porgy and Bess, is the outstanding efforts of an ensemble of 40 singers, in a unique...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 11/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Otello Irina Cristina Vasilescu 09/10/2018A new production of Verdi’s Otello, directed by Giancarlo del Monaco, opens the new season at the National Opera House...
Reviewer's Rating Eugene Onegin Aparna Halpé 04/10/2018It’s difficult to point out what it was, exactly, about this afternoon’s performance of Onegin that didn’t quite take flight....
Reviewer's Rating Salome Tim Hochstrasser 01/10/2018First performed in 1905, ‘Salome’ was Strauss’ breakthrough opera, and is still perhaps the most startling despite all the later...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Owen Davies 26/09/2018This David McVicar production of Traviata is nearly ten years old now but has lost none of its narrative force...
Reviewer's Rating War and Peace Owen Davies 25/09/2018Prokofiev’s operatic version of Tolstoy’s novel presents a range of challenges for any opera company. David Pountney’s production for Welsh...
Reviewer's Rating Faust, Alberta Tim Hochstrasser 06/09/2018Treatments of the Faust story abound in many languages, musical and literary formats. It is a bold and brave endeavour...
Reviewer's Rating Xerse Owen Davies 31/08/2018The Grimeborn season at the Arcola Theatre often achieves minor miracles. This production of an opera by Cavalli from seventeenth...
