Reviewer's Rating Manon Lescaut Alessandro Zummo 26/11/2016he first revival of Jonathan Kent’s production of Manon Lescaut stirs strong emotions as it undoubtedly must have when it...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Tim Hochstrasser 05/10/2016et another production of Tosca – what could be new to add relish to the reviewer’s jaded palate? In fact...
Reviewer's Rating La Fanciulla del West Tim Hochstrasser 11/07/2016his is the final year of Opera Grange Park’s eighteen-year residency at its tastefully derelict neo-classical home, Northington Grange, hidden...
Reviewer's Rating Madam Butterfly Enza De Francisci 27/05/2016fter much acclaim, the late Anthony Minghella’s production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly returns to the ENO for its sixth revival:...
Reviewer's Rating Madama Butterfly Paul Meltzer 04/03/2016hank you, Fates, for putting us at the Metropolitan Opera on this rare night. Cio-cio-san, the Butterfly character upon whom...
Reviewer's Rating La Bohème Miriam Perandones 03/02/2016fter Nabucco in October, the Campoamor theatre (Oviedo), a rich programme followed concluding with Giacomo Puccini La Bohème. The librettists Giuseppe...
Reviewer's Rating La Bohème Tim Hochstrasser 19/10/2015uccini’s dramatisation of artistic life in Paris, first performed in 1896, is probably the best known and most often performed...
Reviewer's Rating Madama Butterfly S.A. McCracken 27/08/2015urbach’s new production of Madama Butterfly draws on traditional Japanese ghost stories to ‘radically reframe’ the opera. The result is...
Reviewer's Rating La Boheme Owen Davies 07/08/2015uccini’s tear-jerker masterpiece seems to hold a special appeal for companies who aim to present old classics in stripped down...
Madame Butterfly James Holloway 10/06/2015orthern Ballet’s tour is a double billing of technical brilliance and dramatic tragedy The evening starts with Perpetuum Mobile, which...
