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Doomed Dutchman wants a wife: Wagner makes Opera Holland Park debut
Amid the rough winds of late May, Julia Burbach directs Opera Holland Park's first venture into Wagner – The Flying Dutchman.
Jurowski completes his slow-burn LPO Ring cycle with Götterdämmerung
Vladimir Jurowski's six-year Ring with the LPO closes as the cycle began: a gleaming, golden ring with a black hole at its core.
Grimeborn delivers a wholly satisfying Half Ring at Hackney Empire
Using Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick's distillations of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, the company concluded its miniature Ring cycle in under five hours, without sacrificing musical or dramatic tension.
Tension accumulates in Handel’s Tamerlano at The Grange Festival
Some exceptional singing intermittently enlivens Daniel Slater's production which, dramatically and emotionally, takes time to ignite.
The Grange Festival opens with Britten's Dream
Britten's four lovers were costumed in quasi-contemporary, even glamorous manner, stripping to their underwear for the end of Act 2... so more Love Island than Ancient Athens.
Elin Pritchard a sensational Manon Lescaut at The Grange Festival
In a new production at The Grange Festival, Elin Pritchard's performance of Puccini's titular heroine in this 1940s-era update is a tour de force.