La Boheme Zabrina Lo 25/06/2018 More than a century after it was first premiered in 1896, La Bohème remains a timeless ode to love. Written by Giacomo Puccini who was crowned by musi...
Tosca Tim Hochstrasser 18/01/2018 What is there new to say about Floria Tosca’s journey from piety and artistry through to a final symbolic confrontation with Baron Scarpia on the batt...
Tosca Owen Davies 13/10/2017 The second act of Tosca is almost always a harrowing experience. The sexual abuse of a distressed woman by a powerful man is deeply disturbing - in th...
La bohème Owen Davies 13/09/2017 Covent Garden’s new production of La Bohème, replacing the much loved Copley version which has been re-appearing for forty years, is splendid but perp...
Madama Butterfly Shmuel Ben-Tovim 25/07/2017 The challenge of any production of Madama Butterfly is how to keep the tension of the audience during the ...
Turandot Fabio Rickenmann [Age:19] 25/07/2017 All’alba vincero! Vincero! Vincero! After these last words of Puccinis world-famous aria “Nessun Dorma” you could hear the sound of 3000 people on their feet ...
Turandot Owen Davies 07/07/2017 Turandot was Puccini’s last opera – indeed, he died before it was finished and the version we now hear is the one completed by Franco Alfano. This lat...
Tosca Owen Davies 01/07/2017 Grange Park Opera has moved to Horsley in Surrey. A new opera house is being built in the grounds of West Horsley Place and, though the building is un...
Madama Butterfly Owen Davies 24/03/2017 Madam Butterfly seems to be the opera that houses turn to as a cash cow when times are hard. It is an opera with a small cast - if you skimp on Butter...
Madam Butterfly Caroline Perret 26/02/2017 The King’s Head theatre welcomes its audience into its intimate space, filled on this occasion with mesmerizingly emotional singing and acting. Stepha...
