Hampstead Garden Opera has returned to the stage with a production of a rarely-performed baroque opera from 1643 by Francesco Cavalli. Hampstead Garde...
If the countless works of the duo Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill have one striking feature, it is their ability to mask immense social criticism throug...
I’ve just been watching the streaming of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore from the Met
and wish it was going to be up for another week or more! That woul...
This splendid production of Carmen shows off the substantial talents of the Welsh National Opera team at their best. It is an opera that all too often...
Some say that Mozart’s revolutionary opera, The Marriage of Figaro, should really be called The Marriage of Susanna. Welsh National Opera’s enjoyable ...
Take two of Puccini’s most popular operas – Tosca and La Boheme and reduce them into one hour each, edit music and narrative and you get ‘opera undone...
When I first spotted "Il Barbiere Di Saviglia" on the yearly programme of the Israeli Opera, my immediate reaction was: what a challenge it is for a d...
This production of Madam Butterfly, created by film maker Anthony Minghella, was first seen at English National Opera in 2005. It is visually stunning...
Verdi's last opera is a real artistic testament to the career of a composer who until the very end never ceased to experiment and evolve his musical a...
