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.

Sofía Esparza y Airam Hernández defienden brillantemente la ópera de Gounod, en la producción de Ópera de Tenerife, con una cuidada dirección escénica de André Heller-Lopes.

Enmarcada entre suburbios y fronteras, Asmik Gregorian logra triunfar en su rol protagonista, sin poder salvar a su personaje, ahogada por la agresividad y provocación escénica.