Lombards but no crusade: Verdi's I Lombardi at UCOpera

At the Theatre Royal Stratford East, the student group made a convincing case for the French version of this gripping work.

Weather forecasters would have a meteorological field day with Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Snow Maiden. Freezing temperatures have prevailed for sixteen years, and the immediate outlook in the Prologue is for further isolated snow showers, before a warm front eventually sweeps in from the south during Act IV. 

One of the consistent joys of seeing a performance by the Royal Academy of Music's opera school is that they bring in world class conductors. At last night's La vera costanza, the orchestra, conducted by Trevor Pinnock, was exceptional.

Ted Huffman wartet mit einigen interessanten Ideen in seiner ersten Inszenierung in Glyndebourne auf. Leider wird das exzellente Singen durch gleichgültiges Schauspielen getrübt.

Kristina Mkhitaryan, Ludovic Tézier und Juan Diego Flórez liefern einen großartigen musikalischen Abend, doch die Neuinszenierung von Ersan Mondtag ist eine modische Enttäuschung.