Lucia di Lammermoor René Weis FRSA 23/07/2025 1313Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor was first performed at Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1835. Since then it has been...
Falstaff Owen Davies 16/07/2025 1163Verdi often used Shakespeare dramas for his opera plots, but it was a great surprise that his final work (first...
Carmen Miho Uchida 03/03/2025 1763Àlex Ollé’s 2021 production of Carmen has returned to the New National Theatre Tokyo after four years. This interpretation is...
The Flying Dutchman Owen Davies 06/02/2025 3624Opera North has built a formidable reputation for creating original and provocative interpretations of opera classics, and their new take...
Eine florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi Miho Uchida 05/02/2025 3385Jun Aguni’s spectacular Florentine double bill, Eine florentinische Tragödie (A Florentine Tragedy) and Gianni Schicchi, made a triumphant return after...
La clemenza di Tito Josi Steinfeld 03/02/2025 3371Mozart was commissioned to compose La Clemenza di Tito, (The Clemency of Titus), in 1791 by impresario Domenico Guardasoni in...
Othello Yael Shuv 03/02/2025 1429Verdi’s 1887 opera, based on Shakespeare’s 1603 play, is a tragedy fueled by jealousy, suspicion, and masculine rage. In today’s...
The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025 3570Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
La Rondine (The Swallow) Josi Steinfeld 16/12/2024 235As Puccini’s centenary year continues, the world has been treated to a wide array of his works, and La Rondine,...
Guillaume Tell Miho Uchida 04/12/2024 3361Rossini’s final opera, Guillaume Tell, was recently staged at The New National Theatre Tokyo in its original French for the...
