Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier (The Rose-Bearer) Alina Bottez 10/03/2018Otto Schenk’s production is by now a classic. Having premiered in 1972, it is one of the longest-running opera productions...
Reviewer's Rating Giulio Cesare Owen Davies 09/03/2018John Coke and his team at Bury Court have conjured up a minor miracle with a production of Giulio Cesare...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2018The Beast from the East nearly ruined the first night of ETO’s new production of The Marriage of Figaro. There...
Reviewer's Rating Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball) Alina Bottez 05/03/2018It seems that the tumultuous fate of Somma’s libretto, moved to three different settings, was not enough. Director Erath makes...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Marc Aronson 23/02/2018Attending the premier of the revival of Giacomo Rossini’s Semiramide at the Metropolitan Opera the week after Black Panther opened...
Reviewer's Rating Abduction from the Seraglio Aparna Halpé 19/02/2018The COCs new production of Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio attempts much, but delivers little. The production, at first...
Reviewer's Rating Iolanthe Richard Voyce 15/02/2018Forget Hamilton. There’s a new ‘hot ticket’ in town, and it is, of all things, Iolanthe at the ENO! Appearing...
Reviewer's Rating La Forza del Destino Owen Davies 15/02/2018This Verdi blockbuster, chosen by Welsh National Opera as part of their ‘Rabble Rousers’ season, deals with the malevolent effect...
Reviewer's Rating Don Giovanni Shmuel Ben-Tovim 14/02/2018This was an absolutely amazing, sophisticated, breathtaking opera production, definitely one of the best in recent memory at the Tel...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Owen Davies 13/02/2018Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca was first performed in Rome in 1900. It is a tale of sedition, torture, rape, and betrayal...
