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Orlando

Josi Steinfeld 06/06/2026 687

Handel’s Orlando, inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, centres on a heroic knight driven to destructive jealousy. Orlando loves Angelica, Queen...

Krishna

Sara Tiron 06/06/2026 629

In the English countryside, Grange Park Opera turns a performance into a wider summer ritual. Arrival through the grounds, the...

High Society

Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026 464

It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...

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You’ve Gone Quiet

Julie Peakman 05/06/2026 1037

There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...

La Traviata
Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur

Josi Steinfeld 02/06/2026 973

La Traviata is one of the world’s most popular operas. Violetta, a courtesan, falls in love with her admirer Alfredo....

La Traviata
Garsington Opera Festival

Rivka Jacobson 02/06/2026 761

Verdi’s La Traviata remains one of opera’s most moving explorations of love, sacrifice and mortality. In this Garsington production, director...

Werther

Miho Uchida 01/06/2026 692

Massenet’s Werther tells the tale of an unrealised love between a young couple, Werther and Charlotte. The opera opens with...

L’elisir d’amore

Miho Uchida 01/06/2026 893

Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore remains one of opera’s most enduring comic masterpieces. The opera follows Nemorino, an earnest but insecure...

Der Rosenkavalier

Owen Davies 31/05/2026 639

Garsington Opera – now at the Getty family’s Wormsley estate near Oxford – goes from strength to strength. After opening...

Krapp’s Last Tape

Olivia Hurton 31/05/2026 806

Beckett was surely having fun when he conceived of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958). He christened his titular character with a...