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Vache Baroque opens with a fine Dido and Aeneas
Purcell's counterpoint is beautifully sung by a young cast to inaugurate England's latest country house opera venue.
Anthropocene: a timely chiller from Scottish Opera
Climate change, challenged egos and a strange Ice woman tell a gruesome tale in Anthropocene, a finely sung new opera from Stuart MacRae, with libretto from Louise Welsh, set in the Arctic with a cinematic score.
Austen-tastic opera: Mansfield Park, Waterperry Opera Festival
Jonathan Dove's witty Jane Austen chamber opera received a standing ovation from an ecstatic audience: quite the opening salvo for a brand new summer opera festival.
Risk of sensory overload: ENO's Lulu
William Kentridge's Lulu for ENO is easier to admire than it is to love. But if you want to be challenged dramatically, this is the opera to do it.
Egg-crackingly good fun: Pop Up Opera's touring production of Bizet's Le docteur Miracle
Pop Up Opera bring their bonkers, busy Bizet to an unusual venue near you!
La Traviata in Berlin, 1938 by Opera UK
Jane McCulloch’s production of La Traviata is currently playing in the small Studio Theatre at RADA. The intriguing setting of Berlin, 1938, is rendered subtly, through wonderful 1930s costumes designed by the director, and references to Berlin life in McCulloch’s new translation.