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Freudian slip: Handel’s Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums
Opha Phelan’s staging presents the action as a grand, Freudian social experiment. It’s a risk – but the production is lifted by outstanding performances from the cast and the Academy of Ancient Music.
Jonathan Dove’s excellent opera Flight touches down in Australia
Jonathan Dove’s opera Flight earns its title as the most popular modern opera with this excellent ensemble performance in Adelaide, its Australian premiere.
A feast of Purcell in Sir David Pountney’s Masque of Might
Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell.
In the Realms of Sorrow: Handel cantatas in the round
Director Adele Thomas can do no wrong, sustaining her extraordinary run of fizz with this unlikely concatenation of four Handel cantatas at Stone Nest.
Baroque thrills: Vivaldi's Bajazet comes to Covent Garden
In its Royal Opera House debut, Irish National Opera's high-energy Bajazet provides a great evening for Baroque fans and sceptics alike.
Alexander Litvinenko: a thrilling – if imperfect – world premiere
Ivor Bolton and Kit Hesketh-Harvey deliver a brilliant political thriller and anti-Putin polemic – at least for its first half.