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*****

London

01 Nov 2025

Dead Man Walking at English National Opera: a superb execution

Von David Karlin

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The little man has his day: a nasty and brutish Die Walküre opens at The Royal Opera

Von Peter Quantrill, 01 Mai 2025

The latest, thrilling instalment of Barrie Kosky's Ring cycle at Covent Garden does not have to strain for contemporary relevance.

*****

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*****

London

01 Mai 2025

The little man has his day: a nasty and brutish Die Walküre

Von Peter Quantrill

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Done to a turn: something for everyone in The Royal Opera’s Hansel and Gretel

Von Peter Quantrill, 22 Dezember 2024

Kate Lindsey and Heidi Stober weave vocal magic in the latest Covent Garden revival of Humperdinck's box of delights.

****1

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****1

London

22 Dez 2024

Done to a turn: something for everyone in Hansel and Gretel

Von Peter Quantrill

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The quintessence of Hamlet: Brett Dean’s opera arrives in Sydney

Von Jeremy Eccles, 20 Juli 2024

80% less of Shakespeare's text adds up to more intensity in Brett Dean's Hamlet as Neil Armfield's staging is mounted by Opera Australia.

****1

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****1

Sydney

20 Jul 2024

The quintessence of Hamlet: Brett Dean’s opera arrives in Sydney

Von Jeremy Eccles

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Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde performed by the ACO

Von Zoltán Szabó, 17 Mai 2024

Mahler's epic five-movement symphonic song cycle is performed by a chamber ensemble with mixed results.

***11

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***11

Sydney

17 Mai 2024

Symphony or song cycle? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde in Sydney

Von Zoltán Szabó

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Moreton-in-Marsh

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Von Roy Westbrook, 29 Mai 2023

Longborough's Ring Cycle reaches completion in the Cotswold's, effectively staged by Amy Lane.

****1

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****1

Moreton-in-Marsh

29 Mai 2023

Fame and feuding on the Rhine: Longborough's new Götterdämmerung

Von Roy Westbrook

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Pinchgut Opera brings Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée to Sydney

Von Sandra Bowdler, 01 Dezember 2022

Erin Helyard and his cast bring terrifically strong musical values to Charpentier's Médée, but Justin Way's production falters.

***11

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***11

Sydney

01 Dez 2022

Pinchgut Opera brings Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée to Sydney

Von Sandra Bowdler

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Sex, scandal and Sisi: MacMillan's Mayerling opens Royal Ballet season

Von Mark Pullinger, 05 Oktober 2022

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Habsburg history lesson comes with a cast list as long as your arm, but the plots and intrigues ensure a gripping evening at the ballet.

****1

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****1

London

05 Okt 2022

Sex, scandal and Sisi: Mayerling opens Royal Ballet season

Von Mark Pullinger

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Hereford

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Von Simon Cummings, 23 Juli 2022

The Three Choirs Festival opens with a performance of Dvořák’s Requiem characterised by extremes of melancholy and hope.

****1

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Hereford

23 Jul 2022

Turmoil and enormity: Dvořák’s Requiem at Hereford Cathedral

Von Simon Cummings

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Buxton

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, fine singing, confusing production

Von Peter Connors, 15 Juli 2022

Buxton International Festival presents Rossini's exhilarating La donna del lago with fine singing, but it is undermined by Jacopo Spirei's staging.

***11

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***11

Buxton

15 Jul 2022

La donna del lago in Buxton: glorious music, confusing production

Von Peter Connors

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Von Mark Pullinger, 14 März 2020

In its 25th anniversary season, Richard Eyre's production continues to attract the world's great sopranos to the role of Violetta, the latest being Aleksandra Kurzak.

****1

****1

London

14 Mär 2020

Aleksandra Kurzak impresses in latest Covent Garden Traviata revival

Von Mark Pullinger

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger, 09 Dezember 2019

The American must be one of the few tenors to tackle both Rossini and Verdi's Moor with success.

****1

****1

London

09 Dez 2019

“Esultate!” Kunde's Otello impresses at Covent Garden

Von Mark Pullinger

Adelaide

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Von Brian Angus, 09 August 2019

When two internationally acclaimed sopranos, two internationally acclaimed mezzos, a brilliant world-renowned conductor, the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and the music of Richard Strauss align all the elements of a magnificent, thrilling evening have gelled.

*****

*****

Adelaide

09 Aug 2019

A much anticipated amazing Girls Night Out in Adelaide

Von Brian Angus

The return of Monteverdi: Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Von David Larkin, 13 Juni 2019

Monteverdi’s Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria is given the Pinchgut treatment, with an abstract staging complementing historically informed music-making under Erin Helyard.

****1

****1

Sydney

13 Jun 2019

Pinchgut takes on Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Von David Larkin

Here be monsters: a bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Von Benjamin Poore, 08 März 2019

A direct and expressive new production of one of Mozart's most adventurous operas enthrals at the Hackney Empire.

****1

****1

London

08 Mär 2019

A bracing new Idomeneo from English Touring Opera

Von Benjamin Poore

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Von Graham Watts, 08 Oktober 2018

A new season for The Royal Ballet and a new star is "born" in this performance that highlights the company's strength in depth

***11

***11

London

08 Okt 2018

The Royal Ballet opens the new season with Mayerling

Von Graham Watts

Skelton and Anger set the scene for Stemme in Covent Garden's superb Walküre

Von David Karlin, 26 September 2018

We start with a triumphant Royal Opera debut from Stuart Skelton, we close with Nina Stemme at her finest; a thrilling orchestral performance links the two. A memorable Walküre.

*****

*****

London

26 Sep 2018

Skelton and Anger set the scene for a superb Walküre

Von David Karlin

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Von Dominic Lowe, 22 Februar 2018

ETO's extracts from Rossini's serious operas at the Hackney Empire lacked spark and dynamism, but saw a fine showing from Elena Xanthoudakis and Catherine Carby.

***11

***11

London

22 Feb 2018

Damp squibs prevent ETO's Rossini: Fireworks! from taking off

Von Dominic Lowe

Monteverdi on a doughnut: A drab Return of Ulysses fails to thrill the Roundhouse

Von David Karlin, 10 Januar 2018

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

**111

**111

London

10 Jan 2018

Monteverdi on a doughnut: Ulysses fails to thrill

Von David Karlin

Static but worth the slog: ETO's two-part Giulio Cesare

Von Olivia Bell, 07 Oktober 2017

Conway's decision to render Handel's epic in its entirety was let down by a static staging and unnecessary repeats that masked the hidden gem-like arias.

***11

***11

London

07 Okt 2017

Static but worth the slog: ETO's Giulio Cesare

Von Olivia Bell

A final outing for the Royal Opera's lavish but fusty Tales of Hoffmann

Von Mark Pullinger, 07 November 2016

When an enormous black gondola creaks and shudders its way across the stage in the “Giulietta' act of the Royal Opera's Tales of Hoffmann, it acts as a metaphor for John Schlesinger's venerable production.

***11

***11

London

07 Nov 2016

Final outing for the Royal Opera's fusty Hoffmann

Von Mark Pullinger

A fun-filled La Calisto from English Touring Opera at the Hackney Empire

Von Dominic Lowe, 14 Oktober 2016

Clever staging and a high standard of acting does much to happily while away the three hours of this baroque opera in the second of ETO's Baroque extravaganza.

***11

***11

London

14 Okt 2016

A fun-filled La Calisto from ETO

Von Dominic Lowe

Norwich

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride, ETO

Von Charlotte Valori, 23 März 2016

English Touring Opera gives Gluck's reformist masterpiece a suitably blood-spattered outing in a production which keeps the opera in touch with its classical roots.

***11

***11

Norwich

23 Mär 2016

Kill or be killed: Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride

Von Charlotte Valori

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei, English Touring Opera

Von Charlotte Valori, 10 März 2016

Donizetti's back catalogue proves just as rich as his well-loved works, with this blisteringly good foray into an extraordinary opera whose UK premiere is 179 undeserved years late.

*****

*****

London

10 Mär 2016

Something old, something new: Donizetti's Pia de' Tolomei

Von Charlotte Valori

Verismo before its time: Donizetti's Siege of Calais at English Touring Opera

Von David Karlin, 07 März 2015

Written half a century before the verismo movement, Donizetti paints a true-to-life portrait of a besieged people which is genuinely touching. James Conway's straightforward production features some notable individual singers and an excellent performance by the chorus.

***11