Katya Kabanova Owen Davies 06/02/2019 This austere opera by Janacek never offers an easy evening in the opera house. Richard Jones' new production for the Royal Opera certainly does justic...
Jette Parker Young Artists Summer Performance Tim Hochstrasser 22/07/2018 This opera matinee has become not just a focal point for the Jette Parker Young Artists themselves at the end of their association with Royal Opera Ho...
Falstaff Tim Hochstrasser 16/07/2018 Verdi’s last opera is a two-fold miracle – of both economy and prodigality. He started with the advantage of Boito’s superb libretto which strengthen...
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...
Andrea Carè in conversation with Rivka Jacobson Rivka Jacobson 15/03/2018 One of the most prominent young operatic tenors, Andrea Carè, was among the last students who had the privilege to study with Luciano Pavarotti. We me...
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 given its first ever Covent Garden performance. ...
Carmen Grace Creaton-Barber 12/02/2018 If you have any preconceptions of Carmen or, in fact, the entire discipline of opera you shall find them completely misplaced in relation to Kosky’s a...
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...
Salome Tim Hochstrasser 09/01/2018 Salome was Strauss’ breakthrough opera and it has all the hallmarks of his early style – lush voluptuous writing for orchestra and the soprano voice a...
Semiramide Tim Hochstrasser 21/12/2017 Rossini loved food. A gourmand and gourmet after whom many dishes were named, one of the few times he is known to have shed tears was when he lost a p...
