Reviewer's Rating Exterminating Angel Owen Davies 26/04/2017homas Ades is the real thing, a British composer writing big works for the operatic stage. In The Exterminating Angel,...
Reviewer's Rating Madama Butterfly Owen Davies 24/03/2017adam Butterfly seems to be the opera that houses turn to as a cash cow when times are hard. It...
Reviewer's Rating Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Agustín Blanco-Bazán 22/03/2017asper Holten´s new production of Wagner´s Meistersinger for the Covent Garden avoids references to Hans Sachs’ Nürnberg. Instead, the whole...
Reviewer's Rating Adriana Lecouvreur Rivka Jacobson 14/02/2017avid McVicar’s production of Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, an accomplished and theatrically engaging opera, can be summed up as a...
Reviewer's Rating Il Trovatore Natalia Kolosova 30/01/2017he performance Il Trovatore at the Royal Opera House, directed by David Bösch, starts with a teenager’s graffiti. While listening...
Reviewer's Rating La Traviata Andrew Godbold 21/01/2017erdi’s opera “La Traviata” premiered at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on the 6th of March 1853. It was...
Reviewer's Rating Written on Skin Owen Davies 14/01/2017ritten on Skin is George Benjamin’s second opera and, in this work, the full benefits of his partnership with writer...
Reviewer's Rating Der Rosenkavalier Jonathan Ben Garcia 20/12/2016he Royal Opera House’s Der Rosenkavalier is lavish and eye-catching. This production is set in the year of the opera’s...
Reviewer's Rating Il Trovatore Isabella Cordua 06/12/2016f this is the first time you watch Il Trovatore, you will be enchanted by this Royal Opera House production....
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...