Jette Parker Young Artists: Le Portrait de Manon, Les Nuits d'été

Following success in New York and Madrid, Oropesa gives Covent Garden a Violetta that will be difficult to better.

From Studio to Stage was the name of this year’s summer performance by young artists on the Jette Parker programme at the Royal Opera House. The programme includes not only singers but also conductors/répétiteurs, a pianist, a lighting designer and stage director Pedro Ribeiro, who surely wins the prize for best headshot.

In a rare performance of Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, Jory Vinikour leads a small ensemble to the heights of religious art music.

To rebuild Maria Callas’s 1961 Medea is to invite the cruellest comparisons in opera. For most of a single night at Epidaurus, Greek National Opera withstands it, but then comes the final act...

Martin G Berger's new production of Zar und Zimmermann eases the Deutsche Oper Berlin into the summer break, with mixed results.

Launching that most ambitious of endeavours, a Ring cycle, Grange Park Opera's production of Das Rheingold proves a real achievement, led by the superb Alberich of David Stout.