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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Axel Kober; Keith Warner; Wiener Staatsoper; Boris Kudlička; Kaspar Glarner; John Bishop; Wiener Staatsopernorchester
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Wayne McGregor’s Jocasta’s Line offers powerful performances
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A dramatic staging of two Greek myths, Wayne McGregor’s Jocasta’s Line is an epic production for Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, a truly modern and totally original work.
Prescient then, terrifying now: The Handmaid’s Tale at ENO
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Margaret Atwood’s dystopic novel, masterfully adapted for the operatic stage, is strongly performed at ENO and rings even truer today than it did when it was written.
Rare and intense drama: Smyth's The Wreckers at Glyndebourne
Smyth's rarely performed tale of evil deeds on the Cornish coast provides searing drama marred by poor intelligibility and an overpowering orchestra.
A topical tale: Gilead returns to the Coliseum stage
Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale comes home to English National Opera after 20 years in a powerful new production by Annilese Miskimmon.
Richard Jones’ second London Ring falters at the first fence
Breastplates are back in vogue, but comedy horses and cheap production values undermine the first chapter in English National Opera's new Ring cycle.
Royal Opera's A New Dark Age is a powerful cantata for our time
The Royal Opera House responds to current global turmoil with a double bill by four women composers. Baritone Peter Brathwaite delivers a tour de force in The Knife of Dawn and A New Dark Age is a powerful emotional journey.