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Historie und Gegenwart: The Mad King bei OPERA2DAY
Regisseur Stefano Simone Pintor schafft ein Paradebeispiel für die Verbindung der guten alten Oper mit unserer Gegenwart.
Sins of the fathers: Le Cid at Dorset Opera Festival
Dorset Opera Festival's bold decision to programme Massenet's obscure opera about a medieval Castilian hero proves to be a major success.
A girl next door: La bohème at Dorset Opera Festival
It's not easy to imagine a freezing Parisian attic when you're in the middle of the rolling Dorset countryside in a baking summer, but Dorset Opera's excellent production of Puccini's La bohème is atmospheric enough to do so.
Tannhäuser opens Longborough's season
Longborough Festival Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser is impressive vocally but particularly distinguished by Anthony Negus’s intelligent and vital conducting.
Carte blanche: A muddled Queen of Spades
David Alden’s muddled clichés failed to convince all the time, but Edward Gardner steered us through a thrilling musical account of Tchaikovsky’s terrific opera.
La traviata: Lightning fails to strike twice
Two years ago, when this controversial production by Peter Konwitschny was first seen at English National Opera, I was completely knocked sideways by it. Could it deliver the same emotional blow to the solar plexus this time around?