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High Wycombe

12. Juni 2026

Monteverdi and Ulisse return happily to Garsington Opera

Von David Karlin

Kitty Whately (Poppea) and Sam Furness (Nerone) © Craig Fuller

Alresford

L’incoronazione di Poppea vividly brought to life at the Grange Festival

Von David Truslove, 7. Juni 2024

Terrific music making with a light directorial touch brings mixed results to Monteverdi's 1643 masterpiece.

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Alresford

7. Juni 2024

L’incoronazione di Poppea vividly brought to life at the Grange

Von David Truslove

Jennifer Davis (Jenůfa) © ENO | Ellie Kurtz

Beneath the ice: a triumphant revival of Jenůfa at English National Opera

Von Dominic Lowe, 13. März 2024

David Alden's production is a vivid telling of Janáček's devastating village drama. With a terrific cast and a splendid performance from the pit, this revival is an unalloyed artistic success.

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London

13. März 2024

Beneath the ice: a triumphant revival of ENO's Jenůfa

Von Dominic Lowe

Glyndebourne

Barrie Kosky delivers a devastating Carmélites at Glyndebourne

Von Dominic Lowe, 10. Juni 2023

Brought to life by some sensational singing from a strong cast, Kosky's staging delivers repeated emotional punches.

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*****

Glyndebourne

10. Juni 2023

Barrie Kosky delivers a devastating Carmélites at Glyndebourne

Von Dominic Lowe

Glyndebourne

The Rake Resurgent as Glyndebourne's Stravinsky classic is revived

Von Roy Westbrook, 23. Oktober 2021

A memorable performance makes a worthy memorial to the late, great Bernard Haitink, who conducted the production's premiere.

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Glyndebourne

23. Okt. 2021

The Rake Resurgent as Glyndebourne's Stravinsky classic is revived

Von Roy Westbrook

Mascagni's Isabeau at Opera Holland Park

Von David Karlin, 14. Juli 2018

An embarrassingly trite libretto proves unsalvageable, even with a committed cast of singers.

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London

14. Juli 2018

Mascagni's Isabeau at Opera Holland Park

Von David Karlin

Alresford

A spellbinding Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria opens the Grange Festival

Von David Karlin, 7. Juni 2017

Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria tells one of the world’s great stories. This production is a treat for early opera fans and a great introduction for those new to the genre.

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*****

Alresford

7. Juni 2017

A spellbinding Ritorno d'Ulisse at the Grange

Von David Karlin

Blandford Forum

Fate's intentions: Eugene Onegin at the Dorset Opera Festival

Von Dominic Lowe, 26. Juli 2016

Deep in Dorset, Anna Patalong gives a powerful Tatyana, ably supported by a well-taught chorus in an English translation of Tchaikovsky's opera of hearts and friendships broken.

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Blandford Forum

26. Juli 2016

Eugene Onegin at the Dorset Opera Festival

Von Dominic Lowe

Full immersion, total immolation: Götterdämmerung crowns Opera North's magnificent Ring

Von Mark Pullinger, 3. Juli 2016

Crowning this cycle came a truly magnificent performance of Götterdämmerung, centred very much on Richard Farnes and his orchestra.

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London

3. Juli 2016

Full immersion, total immolation

Von Mark Pullinger

Kelly Cae Hogan (Brünnhilde) and Robert Hayward (Wotan) © Clive Barda

Disobedient daughter, outraged wife: Wotan's woes mount in Opera North's Die Walküre

Von Mark Pullinger, 29. Juni 2016

In Anna Russell's wittily deadpan analysis of Wagner's Ring cycle, she describes Wotan as “the head god” – pausing for dramatic effect before adding “and he's a crashing bore too.”

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London

29. Juni 2016

Wotan's woes mount in Opera North's Die Walküre

Von Mark Pullinger

Opera North's Andrea Chénier full of modern relevance

Von Richard Wilcocks, 19. Januar 2016

Opera North's Andrea Chénier at Leeds Grand Theatre directed by Annabel Arden is full of modern relevance and a fine start to the new season

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Leeds

19. Jan. 2016

Opera North's Andrea Chénier full of modern relevance

Von Richard Wilcocks

Shorn of excess exoticism: Ailyn Bozok’s Lakmé at Holland Park

Von Mark Pullinger, 9. Juli 2015

Ailyn Bozok's minimlaist production of Delibes' Lakmé at Opera Holland Park contains much tender beauty and is carried by fine musical performances.

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London

9. Juli 2015

Shorn of excess exoticism: Lakmé at Holland Park

Von Mark Pullinger

Opera North's sunny and life-affirming Bartered Bride

Von Richard Wilcocks, 29. Oktober 2014

Smetana's The Bartered Bride by Opera North at Leeds Grand Theatre directed by Daniel Slater is a confident revival of an old success.

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Leeds

29. Okt. 2014

Opera North's sunny and life-affirming Bartered Bride

Von Richard Wilcocks

Opera North blends the beautiful with the cynical in The Coronation of Poppea

Von Richard Wilcocks, 4. Oktober 2014

Opera North's static production of Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea directed by Tim Albery takes place in a murderous psychopath’s private cellar.

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Leeds

4. Okt. 2014

Poppea: blending the beautiful with the cynical

Von Richard Wilcocks

The finale of Opera North's Ring is brilliantly successful

Von Richard Wilcocks, 14. Juni 2014

A brilliantly successful performance of Götterdämmerung by Opera North to bring its four-year Ring to a fiery close.

*****

*****

Leeds

14. Juni 2014

The finale of Opera North's Ring

Von Richard Wilcocks

High Wycombe

Garsington Opera's La Périchole bubbles and delights

Von David Karlin, 18. Juni 2012

The West End/Broadway musical is alive and well, raking in millions with its blend of light music, song and dance routines and not-too-taxing drama. But its spiritual ancestor, the operetta, is an unfashionable beast.

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