Reviewer's Rating Katya Kabanova Owen Davies 06/02/2019This austere opera by Janacek never offers an easy evening in the opera house. Richard Jones’ new production for the...
Reviewer's Rating Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2018This opera matinee has become not just a focal point for the Jette Parker Young Artists themselves at the end...
Reviewer's Rating Falstaff Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s...
Reviewer's Rating La Boheme Zabrina Lo 25/06/2018More than a century after it was first premiered in 1896, La Bohème remains a timeless ode to love. Written...
Andrea Carè in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 15/03/2018One of the most prominent young operatic tenors, Andrea Carè, was among the last students who had the privilege to...
Reviewer's Rating From the House of the Dead Tim Hochstrasser 10/03/2018‘In every creature, a spark of God’ wrote the composer on the title page of this, his last opera, now...
Reviewer's Rating Carmen Grace Creaton-Barber 12/02/2018If you have any preconceptions of Carmen or, in fact, the entire discipline of opera you shall find them completely...
Reviewer's Rating Tosca Tim Hochstrasser 18/01/2018What is there new to say about Floria Tosca’s journey from piety and artistry through to a final symbolic confrontation...
Reviewer's Rating Salome Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2018Salome was Strauss’ breakthrough opera and it has all the hallmarks of his early style – lush voluptuous writing for...
Reviewer's Rating Semiramide Tim Hochstrasser 21/12/2017Rossini loved food. A gourmand and gourmet after whom many dishes were named, one of the few times he is...
