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West Horsley

25 juin 2026

Utter joy: Grange Park Opera’s new Barbiere is a hit

Par Dominic Lowe

Simon Bailey (Dutchman) and Rachel Nicholls (Senta) © Craig Fuller

Birmingham

Welsh National Opera’s Dutchman docks in Birmingham

Par Rohan Shotton, 07 mai 2026

This bracing performance of The Flying Dutchman is a powerful reminder of the extraordinary musical standards which are at risk in the face of WNO’s subsidy cuts.

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Birmingham

07 mai 2026

Welsh National Opera’s Dutchman docks in Birmingham

Par Rohan Shotton

John Findon (Peter Grimes) © James Glossop

Leeds

John Findon triumphs in the return of Opera North’s Peter Grimes

Par Richard Wilcocks, 13 février 2026

Benjamin Britten’s dark masterpiece Peter Grimes returns triumphantly to Opera North, conducted by Gary Walker and revived by Karolina Sofulak and Tim Claydon.

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Leeds

13 févr. 2026

John Findon triumphs in the return of Opera North’s Peter Grimes

Par Richard Wilcocks

Deepa Johnny (Cinderella) and Charles Rice (Dandini) © Mark Douet

The comedy falls flat in English National Opera's season opening Cinderella

Par Mark Valencia, 27 septembre 2025

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

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Londres

27 sept. 2025

Comedy falls flat in ENO's season opening Cinderella

Par Mark Valencia

Charles Rice (Figaro) and Simon Bailey (Bartolo) © Clive Barda

Time for a cut? Jonathan Miller's The Barber of Seville returns to English National Opera

Par Dominic Lowe, 12 février 2024

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.

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Londres

12 févr. 2024

Time for a cut? Jonathan Miller's Barber of Seville returns to ENO

Par Dominic Lowe

Gwyn Hughes Jones (Peter Grimes) © Tom Bowles

Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

Par Stephen Pritchard, 21 septembre 2023

English National Opera opens its new season with a revival of David Alden's masterly production.

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Londres

21 sept. 2023

Peter Grimes a raging, powerful, defiant start to the new ENO season

Par Stephen Pritchard

John Relyea (Wotan) © English National Opera | Marc Brenner

Lucid in music and narrative: ENO and Richard Jones’ The Rhinegold

Par David Karlin, 18 février 2023

Martyn Brabbins conducts an excellent ENO orchestra and consistently good ensemble cast as Richard Jones delivers a wealth of narrative detail to introduce Wagner's Ring.

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Londres

18 févr. 2023

Lucid in music and narrative: ENO's Rhinegold

Par David Karlin

Stuttgart

Bang to rights: a rare outing for an opera from the former GDR

Par Matthew Rye, 13 novembre 2021

Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Paul Dessau and Bertolt Brecht's political satire about a Roman general judged for his deeds after death, has lost none of its relevance in Staatsoper Stuttgart's new production.

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Stuttgart

13 nov. 2021

Bang to rights: a rare outing for an opera from the former GDR

Par Matthew Rye

Askese und Amore: Pergolesi-Doppel an der Oper Frankfurt

Par Alexandra Richter, 01 novembre 2020

Das Opernhaus des Jahres präsentiert zwei Werke des Barockkomponisten Pergolesi.

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Francfort-sur-le-Main

01 nov. 2020

Askese und Amore: Pergolesi-Doppel an der Oper Frankfurt

Par Alexandra Richter

War and Peace: Welsh National Opera comes to London to parade its wares

Par Mark Valencia, 23 juillet 2019

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

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Londres

23 juil. 2019

War and Peace: WNO comes to London to parade its wares

Par Mark Valencia

Silence in Court! John Wilson and the OAE return a “not guilty” verdict

Par Benjamin Poore, 18 avril 2019

A classy and charming adventure through Gilbert & Sullivan with the OAE and John Wilson .

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Londres

18 avril 2019

Wilson and the OAE return a “not guilty” verdict

Par Benjamin Poore

Cardiff

Ferocious intensity: David Pountney's new War and Peace at Welsh National Opera

Par Rohan Shotton, 15 septembre 2018

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

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Cardiff

15 sept. 2018

Ferocious intensity: Pountney's new War and Peace at WNO

Par Rohan Shotton

Indomitable: Billy Budd in Frankfurt

Par Matthew Rye, 25 mai 2018

Oper Frankfurt's revival of Richard Jones's production of Billy Budd with a homegrown cast is a devastating combination of powerful music and searing drama.

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Francfort-sur-le-Main

25 mai 2018

Indomitable: Billy Budd in Frankfurt

Par Matthew Rye

Cardiff

An arresting From the House of the Dead at Welsh National Opera

Par Rohan Shotton, 08 octobre 2017

David Pountney's House of the Dead makes for high entertainment at Welsh National Opera.

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Cardiff

08 oct. 2017

An arresting From the House of the Dead

Par Rohan Shotton

Cardiff

Stark and spellbinding: Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina leads WNO's Russian season

Par Katherine Cooper, 23 septembre 2017

Welsh National Opera’s new season commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution with three Russian-themed works opens with both a bang and a whimper with this trenchant revival.

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Cardiff

23 sept. 2017

Stark and spellbinding: Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Par Katherine Cooper

Gesellschaftskritik statt feinster Musikalität: Drei ironische Opern von Ernst Křenek

Par Stephan Eckel, 30 avril 2017

Křeneks Der Diktator, Schwergewicht oder Die Ehre der Nation und Das geheime Königreich in der Oper Frankfurt zeigen die Traditionsgattung Oper von einer anderen Seite. Ungewöhnlich und erfrischend anders.

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Francfort-sur-le-Main

30 avril 2017

Oper Frankfurt: Ernst Křeneks erfrischende Drei Opern

Par Stephan Eckel

Wexford

Apocalyptic Herculanum opens Wexford Festival Opera

Par Andrew Larkin, 26 octobre 2016

Excellent singing, dramatic sets and jolly music make this a rewarding revival of a long-forgotten opera, Herculanum by David.

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Wexford

26 oct. 2016

Apocalyptic Herculanum opens Wexford Festival Opera

Par Andrew Larkin

Save the Rhine: Frankfurt Ring concludes with a strong message

Par Ako Imamura, 17 juillet 2016

Frankfurt Opera's 2012 production of Götterdämmerung with its emphasis on the contemporary human issues was a successful conclusion of the revived Ring.

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Francfort-sur-le-Main

17 juil. 2016

Frankfurt Ring concludes with a strong message

Par Ako Imamura

The OAE celebrates in style with Weber’s Der Freischütz

Par Alexander Hall, 07 juin 2016

Weaknesses in the staging did little to dim the musical pleasure of hearing Sir Mark Elder conduct Weber's masterpiece with OAE forces and an impressvee cast

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Londres

07 juin 2016

OAE celebrates in style with Weber’s Der Freischütz

Par Alexander Hall

L'Étoile proves a disappointingly flat foray into opéra-bouffe for the Royal Opera

Par David Karlin, 01 février 2016

Poor intelligibility and lack of pace in the music or acting make L'Étoile into a disappointingly flat evening.

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Londres

01 févr. 2016

A flat foray into opéra-bouffe for the Royal Opera

Par David Karlin

Amourös enorm verwickelt: L'Orontea in Frankfurt

Par Christoph Wurzel, 14 février 2015

Als turbulenter Faschingsspaß ist die frühbarocke Oper L’Orontea 1656 uraufgeführt worden. An der Frankfurter Oper erlebte sie jetzt als moderner Operngag eine rasante Neuinterpretation.

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Francfort-sur-le-Main

14 févr. 2015

Amourös enorm verwickelt

Par Christoph Wurzel

Hereford

Dyson's Canterbury Pilgrims at the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford

Par Andrew H. King, 25 juillet 2012

Sir George Dyson (1883–1964) is now principally remembered by the generations of grown-up schoolchildren who sang his many songs for educational use, and more recently by church choirs and congregations for his religious music.

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