En vivo, Video: Buscador de críticas de conciertos de música clásica, ópera, ballet y danza | Charles Rice

Julia Burbach and her designer, Herbert Murauer, are defeated by the wide canyons of the Coliseum stage in their modern-dress Cinderella. 

Sir Jonathan Miller’s production of Puccini’s classic remains powerful, but ENO’s latest revival underwhelms at the Coliseum. 

Miller's production, running since 1987, is starting to show its ago, but an excellent performance from Anna Devin keeps English National Opera's latest revival moving.

Sous la direction précise et dynamique de François-Xavier Roth, l'unique opéra du compositeur hongrois, proposé dans une nouvelle version française, est servi par une distribution excellente.

When done as well as this, a "concert staging" is not oxymoronic, but a precise term for a valuable mode of presentation.

Donnée en création mondiale au Théâtre Graslin, l'œuvre agace plus qu'elle ne convainc, malgré un troisième acte particulièrement réussi et l'investissement sans faille des interprètes.

A well-sung revival of Jonathan Miller's Bohème at the coliseum fails to catch fire.

From the stately front of The Grange, an impressive moustache looms large, welcoming the audience to a production of Rossini's masterpiece that baffles, confuses and delights the audience.

Even in a festival like Wexford’s, you cannot resist the attraction of a beloved opera that you know by heart.

Franco Alfano’s name is inextricably linked to that of Puccini, as he’s mostly remembered for completing the unfinished score of Turandot, and has overshadowed his own operas. 

Un épatant Laurent Naouri croise le fer vocal avec Patrizia Ciofi dans une distribution sans faille.

When an enormous black gondola creaks and shudders its way across the stage in the “Giulietta' act of the Royal Opera's Tales of Hoffmann, it acts as a metaphor for John Schlesinger's venerable production.

Entre overdose visuelle et auditive, le Maestro Carella a eu fort à faire pour sauver le célèbre duo Cav/Pag à l'Opéra de Toulon. Il y est parvenu !

Tabachnik et Debray signent une œuvre poétique à l'Opéra de Lyon. Puissamment évocateur, Benjamin, Dernière Nuit, nous donne à penser la tension entre mystique et profane qui nous possède tous.

“Community, exclusion, rejection and desire”, writes director Christopher Rolls about English Touring Opera’s production of Albert Herring. “Doesn’t sound like a recipe for an uproarious comedy does it? And the key thing about Herring is that it is very very funny.

The Royal Academy of Music has a small but beautifully refurbished theatre, the 230 seat Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, where it stages full opera performances. Although many of the seats are taken by Academy staff, performers' friends and families, talent scouts and others with specific reasons for being there, some of the tickets are available to the public.