Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2018 2282The 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 05/03/2018 2136It 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 23/02/2018 7680Attending 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 19/02/2018 2856The 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 15/02/2018 11117Forget 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 15/02/2018 2365This 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 14/02/2018 8292This 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 13/02/2018 2291Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca was first performed in Rome in 1900. It is a tale of sedition, torture, rape, and betrayal...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Grace Creaton-Barber 12/02/2018 2901If you have any preconceptions of Carmen or, in fact, the entire discipline of opera you shall find them completely...
Reviewer's Rating Satyagraha Tim Hochstrasser 06/02/2018 2168This is the third revival of a landmark 2007 production, the first in the UK of this popular opera. It...
