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West Horsley

20. Juni 2026

Grange Park Opera’s Ring cycle opens with an excellent Rheingold

Von Dominic Lowe

Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Von Peter Quantrill, 25. April 2026

Beautifully prepared singing and playing brings out the tender side to Berg's modernist classic as part of the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival.

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London

25. Apr. 2026

Wretches like us: the LPO’s concert Wozzeck cuts to the quick

Von Peter Quantrill

Ying Fang (Susanna) and Luca Micheletti (Figaro) © ROH | Clive Barda

Ying Fang and Luca Micheletti light up McVicar’s Marriage of Figaro

Von Mark Pullinger, 2. September 2024

Sir David McVicar's Figaro has been delighting audiences at the Royal Opera House since 2006. Is this its final outing?

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London

2. Sept. 2024

Ying Fang and Luca Micheletti light up McVicar’s Marriage of Figaro

Von Mark Pullinger

Brett Polegato (Prospero) © Marc Brenner

Impressive visuals and performances lift a confusing operatic take on The Tempest

Von Nick Boston, 11. Juli 2024

Strong vocal and orchestral performances, supported by impressive visuals, struggle to bring coherency to Anthony Bolton's Island of Dreams at Grange Park Opera.

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West Horsley

11. Juli 2024

A confusing operatic take on The Tempest at Grange Park Opera

Von Nick Boston

Thomas Atkins (Boris) and Natalya Romaniw (Kátya) © Marc Brenner

Alden and Barlow impress in a minimalist Kátya Kabanová at Grange Park Opera

Von David Karlin, 27. Juni 2024

A memorable performance, with Stephen Barlow conducting Janáček’s remarkable score with vividness and clarity, while David Alden's staging is a masterpiece of "less is more".

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West Horsley

27. Juni 2024

An impressive, minimalist Kátya Kabanová at Grange Park Opera

Von David Karlin

Taking the Pils: Grange Park Opera proves that rare Janáček is no small beer

Von Matthew Rye, 26. Juni 2022

Janáček’s satirical opera The Excursions of Mr Brouček may not be among his greatest dramatic works, yet it earns its place in the limelight for its musical, visual and dramatic wit at Grange Park Opera.

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West Horsley

26. Juni 2022

Taking the Pils: Pountney proves that rare Janáček is no small beer

Von Matthew Rye

Ivan not quite so Terrible: a Rimsky-Korsakov double bill at Grange Park Opera

Von Mark Pullinger, 19. Juni 2021

First marketed as Ivan the Terrible by Serge Diaghilev, Rimsky-Korsakov's first opera The Maid of Pskov makes a rare appearance outside of Russia, in leafy Surrey.

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West Horsley

19. Juni 2021

Ivan not quite so Terrible at Grange Park Opera

Von Mark Pullinger

Toronto

Classic Robert Wilson: Turandot opens Canadian Opera Company season

Von John Gilks, 28. September 2019

Director Robert Wilson and conductor Carlo Rizzi combine effectively to create a visually striking and musically memorable Turandot that emphasizes the hieratic and the mythical with a notable absence of unnecessary histrionics.

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Toronto

28. Sept. 2019

Classic Robert Wilson: Turandot opens Canadian Opera Company season

Von John Gilks

Glasgow

Stovepipe hats are back: Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

Von David Smythe, 4. Mai 2019

Sir Thomas Allen’s crowd-pleasing Magic Flute returns to Scottish Opera in a finely sung performance with Tobias Ringborg drawing period colours from the orchestra.

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Glasgow

4. Mai 2019

Scottish Opera’s steampunk Magic Flute returns

Von David Smythe

High Wycombe

Songs of innocence and experience: Verdi's Falstaff at Garsington

Von Charlotte Valori, 16. Juni 2018

Bruno Ravella's fast-paced Falstaff for Garsington still has crucial space for pathos amid the comedy, with a notably subtle central performance from Henry Waddington.

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High Wycombe

16. Juni 2018

Songs of innocence and experience: Falstaff at Garsington

Von Charlotte Valori

High Wycombe

Truth and Wisdom: a searching Zauberflöte at Garsington

Von Mark Pullinger, 31. Mai 2018

A twist on the usual Enlightenment path, this is an admirable production, excellently executed.

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High Wycombe

31. Mai 2018

Truth and Wisdom: a searching Zauberflöte at Garsington

Von Mark Pullinger

Dublin

Fun and frolics at Irish National Opera's Figaro

Von Andrew Larkin, 17. April 2018

A wonderful ful-filled caper by the Irish National Opera of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro with Erraught as Susanna and Miskelly as Cherubino really impressing.

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Dublin

17. Apr. 2018

Fun and frolics at Irish National Opera's Figaro

Von Andrew Larkin

A topsy-turvy Rheingold in concert from Jurowski and the LPO

Von Mark Valencia, 27. Januar 2018

Robert Hayward was unafraid to 'go ugly' when need be in Jurowski's symphonically executed concert performance.

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London

27. Jan. 2018

A topsy-turvy Rheingold in concert from Jurowski and the LPO

Von Mark Valencia

Cardiff

An arresting From the House of the Dead at Welsh National Opera

Von Rohan Shotton, 8. Oktober 2017

David Pountney's House of the Dead makes for high entertainment at Welsh National Opera.

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Cardiff

8. Okt. 2017

An arresting From the House of the Dead

Von Rohan Shotton

Strikingly dramatic Weir in a convincing première from the BBC Singers and Nash Ensemble

Von Nick Boston, 12. August 2017

Judith Weir's dramatic new choral work receives a convincing world première from David Hill and the BBC Singers at Southwark Cathedral.

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London

12. Aug. 2017

Strikingly dramatic Weir in a convincing première

Von Nick Boston

Alresford

John Copley directs a peach of an Albert Herring for Grange Festival

Von Mark Pullinger, 25. Juni 2017

With a combined age of 161 years, John Copley and Steuart Bedford certainly bring ample experience to Grange Festival's new production of Britten's Albert Herring.

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Alresford

25. Juni 2017

A peach of an Albert Herring at Grange Festival

Von Mark Pullinger

Simply brilliant: Hartmann’s Simplicius Simplicissimus at Sadler’s Wells

Von Matthew Rye, 11. November 2016

The first UK production of Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s 1930s anti-war opera Simplicius Simplicissimus is a musical and dramatic triumph, and as pertinent as ever

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London

11. Nov. 2016

Simply brilliant: Simplicius Simplicissimus

Von Matthew Rye

Glyndebourne

Humour and humanity: McVicar's Meistersinger touches the heart at Glyndebourne

Von Mark Pullinger, 21. Mai 2016

“Honour your masters!” Sachs instructs Walther in the final scene. Wagner's spirit was honoured well as Glyndebourne's festival opened, but did the song contest necessarily crown the right winner?

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Glyndebourne

21. Mai 2016

McVicar's Meistersinger touches the heart

Von Mark Pullinger

Cardiff

An evening of starvation and gluttony with Welsh National Opera's Hansel and Gretel

Von Simon Rees, 21. Februar 2015

Hansel and Gretel is often treated as a children's opera, suitable for family viewing at Christmas, but as Richard Jones' production demonstrates, it is a good deal darker than that.

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Cardiff

21. Feb. 2015

An evening of starvation and gluttony with Hansel and Gretel

Von Simon Rees

Edinburgh

A Butterfly fit for the Commonweath Games

Von David Smythe, 8. Mai 2014

Scottish Opera revives Sir David McVicar's Madama Butterfly. It still looks wonderful. The music, players and singers tell the harrowing story magnificently.

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Edinburgh

8. Mai 2014

A Butterfly fit for the Commonweath Games

Von David Smythe

Cardiff

A Powerful Relic from Post-war Germany: Welsh National Opera's Boulevard Solitude

Von Peter Reynolds, 26. Februar 2014

A great post-war classic by Henze in a strong new production from Welsh National Opera.

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Cardiff

26. Feb. 2014

A Powerful Relic from Post-war Germany: Welsh National Opera's Boulevard Solitude

Von Peter Reynolds

Oxford

Roderick Williams stands out in a programme of Goethe settings in the Oxford Lieder Festival

Von Katy Wright, 14. Oktober 2013

The penultimate concert in a three-year project to record the complete songs of Hugo Wolf, this Oxford Lieder Festival concert’s programme was based around settings of Goethe.

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Oxford

14. Okt. 2013

Roderick Williams stands out in a programme of Goethe settings in the Oxford Lieder Festival

Von Katy Wright

The last revival: The Magic Flute at London Coliseum

Von Julia Savage, 13. September 2012

The house was full for the opening night at the London Coliseum, and there were plenty of whoops for conductor Nicholas Collon as he made his ENO debut. This year marks the 25th anniversary of ENO's celebrated production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, and this revival – the fourteenth – will be the last.

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London

13. Sept. 2012

The last revival: The Magic Flute at London Coliseum

Von Julia Savage

A stellar cast lights up ENO's Rosenkavalier

Von David Karlin, 28. Januar 2012

English National opera's first première of 2012 is a revival of David McVicar's 2008 production of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, in splendid rococo period setting. They pulled out all the stops in casting: the four lead roles were all sung and acted wonderfully by English singers at the very top of their game.

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London

28. Jan. 2012

A stellar cast lights up ENO's Rosenkavalier

Von David Karlin

True to the spirit of Pushkin: ENO's Eugene Onegin

Von David Karlin, 12. November 2011

Young man spurns the love of a good woman. Time passes. Man realises the error of his ways, but it is too late. It's not exactly the most taxing of plot lines, but in Eugene Onegin, Alexander Pushkin turned it into a masterpiece.

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