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Joana Carneiro and James Ehnes in Summer for the City at Lincoln Center

By David Wolfson, 05 August 2025

Joana Carneiro, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center and music by Frank, Shostakovich, Ravel and Prokofiev fused into something that transcended them all.

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New York City

06 Aug 2025

Joana Carneiro and James Ehnes in Summer for the City

By David Wolfson

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London

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

By Nick Boston, 15 February 2025

Musgrave's powerful depiction of a powerful woman at the mercy of male manipulation receives a strong staging from at ENO.

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London

16 Feb 2025

ENO gives Thea Musgrave's Mary, Queen of Scots a worthy performance

By Nick Boston

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh International Festival explodes into life with Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos

By Simon Thompson, 03 August 2024

Golijov's La Pasión según San Marcos is full of life, but seeing it as well as hearing it definitely helps.

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Edinburgh

04 Aug 2024

Edinburgh Festival explodes into life with Golijov's St Mark Passion

By Simon Thompson

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London

Prescient then, terrifying now: The Handmaid’s Tale at English National Opera

By David Karlin, 01 February 2024

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.

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London

02 Feb 2024

Prescient then, terrifying now: The Handmaid’s Tale at ENO

By David Karlin

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Edinburgh

The SCO bring forward one of their own to play Mozart's Flute Concerto

By Simon Thompson, 16 February 2023

André Cebrián dazzles as the flute soloist in a Mozart concerto, but Joana Carneiro's conducting only intermittently draws magic from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

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Edinburgh

16 Feb 2023

The SCO bring forward one of their own to play Mozart's Flute Concerto

By Simon Thompson

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Leeds

Opera North revives its taut, terrific Tosca

By Mark Valencia, 21 January 2023

The director Edward Dick and his designer, Tom Scutt, alternate between realistic and expressionistic images in their creation of grim spectacle.

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Leeds

23 Jan 2023

Opera North revives its taut, terrific Tosca

By Mark Valencia

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London

A topical tale: Gilead returns to the Coliseum stage

By Matthew Rye, 08 April 2022

Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale comes home to English National Opera after 20 years in a powerful new production by Annilese Miskimmon.

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London

09 Apr 2022

A topical tale: Gilead returns to the Coliseum stage

By Matthew Rye

Glasgow

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

By David Smythe, 22 February 2020

Scottish Opera’s Nixon in China in a stylish, living history production from John Fulljames, with strong performances across the board, Joana Carneiro stoking the fires in the pit.

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Glasgow

24 Feb 2020

Stylish, powerful Nixon in China from Scottish Opera

By David Smythe

Manchester

Mumford, Mendelssohn and Mahler in Manchester

By Rohan Shotton, 24 October 2019

Joana Carneiro conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a lively Mendelssohn concerto and elegant Mahler Fifth.

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Manchester

27 Oct 2019

Mumford, Mendelssohn and Mahler in Manchester

By Rohan Shotton

Stockholm

Carmen meets Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera

By Laura Servidei, 19 January 2019

A semi-successful production with an interesting underlying idea and a solid cast brings Bizet’s masterpiece back to Stockholm.

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Stockholm

21 Jan 2019

Carmen meets Tosca at the Royal Swedish Opera

By Laura Servidei

London

A Passion for our times: Adams' The Gospel According To The Other Mary premières at ENO

By David Karlin, 21 November 2014

The view of Jesus as the archetypal left wing radical, champion of the poor and dispossessed and scourge of the wealthy forms the foundation of John Adams and Peter Sellars’ oratorio The Gospel According To The Other Mary. A strong score and outstanding conductor and singers make for an impressive première.

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London

22 Nov 2014

A Passion for our times: The Gospel According To The Other Mary

By David Karlin