Performer: Alek Shrader

Lots of people talk about keeping opera relevant. WNO shows why this opera always has been.

James Darrah stages Handel's sensual oratorio for Festival O, a feast of wonderful singing. 

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Kevin Newbury see Candide as a coming-of-age story, placing it in their own high-school years, specifically 1992, making Westphalia a USA knockoff.

David Alden's staging of Alcina mines the rich theatricality of one of Handel's best-loved operas with enchanting but also perplexing results. 

Alek Shrader's Wigmore Hall debut was thrilling, touching, charming and mysterious.

This performance marked Sir Mark Elder’s debut with the company and, beginning with the overture, he offered his individual interpretation of the score. He had an enormous range of dynamics and his tempi varied widely with the emotional values of each scene.