La Traviata in Berlin, 1938 by Opera UK

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.

10 Days in a Madhouse is a musically and dramatically excellent but disturbing insight into conditions in a women’s asylum brought to life in Toronto by an excellent production.

First class young voices and bewitchingly stylised designs shine through the murk at the Bucharest Opera Festival. 

One element of the Orpheus myth is about creativity, so at Glyndebourne, William Kentridge sets Monteverdi’s opera in an artist's studio,