Die Fledermaus was 19th-century ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss’ biggest hit operetta, its longevity ensured by bubbliness and an abundance of hummable tunes.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMBarrie Kosky’s Carmen, returning to the Royal Opera House for the third time, rebels against the opera’s traditional 19th century Spanish visuals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMAnyone who finds Handel’s more famous operas po-faced and burdened with endless da capo arias will appreciate Agrippina’s relative brevity and snappier
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMW11 Opera is a remarkable company. Founded in 1971, it offers the invaluable opportunity for 80 schoolchildren aged nine-18 to participate in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMAustralian composer Brett Dean’s operatic treatment of Hamlet, with a Bard-bowdlerising libretto by Matthew Jocelyn, premiered in Glyndebourne in June. Now it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMWith its trippy dream-world setting, Mozart’s The Magic Flute is perfect fodder for inventive reimaginings, especially as the racism, masonic mysticism and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMEnglish Touring Opera’s first foray into the world of Gilbert and Sullivan proves emphatically that it shouldn’t be its last. The main
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMEllen Kent has been touring opera throughout the UK and Ireland for 25 years, and shows no sign of diminished passion for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMRoutinely mentioned in the same breath as Rigoletto and La Traviata, Verdi’s two other seminal operas from the early 1850s, this grisly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMFounded in 1990, Hampstead Garden Opera performs two valuable roles: an opportunity for young singers to participate in staged productions, and to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMOne of the most successful women in opera management, Annilese Miskimmon has held the high-profile post of Danish National Opera’s artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYoung Vic, London: English National Opera's first purpose-written children's opera offers London audiences the second chance this year to experience a staging of Oliver Jeffers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMLinbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London: When is the perfect girlfriend too perfect? When she seems always, uncannily, on your wavelength? When she repeats the same perfect moves i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMColiseum, London: One of the first so-called verismo operas, there is not usually a 'real-life' feel to La Boheme - something Jonathan Miller's 2009 production attempts to add…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMLinbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Following previous collaborations with heavy-weight American composer Philip Glass (most recently In the Penal Colony in 2010), smal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMRoyal Opera House, Covent Garden: Since its 2011 Royal Opera House world premiere, Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic treatment of the tragic life-story of Texan Playboy model and TV perso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMGlyndebourne, Lewes: Robert Carson's sometimes silly but entertaining take on Handel's musically supreme fantasy opera returns to Glyndebourne for its first revival. Though packed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMRoyal Opera House, Covent Garden: Donizetti's 1835 romantic opera on Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) is based on a Schiller play which, like Shakespeare histories, has a re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMGrange Park Opera, Alresford: Summer opera festivals, such as Hampshire's Grange Park Opera, often offer more adventurous repertoire than major houses - perhaps because summer audiences…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMGlyndebourne: Jonathan Kent's grey-hued but lively 1950s-set production of Mozart's dark comedy on the antics and retribution of the titular womaniser returns for its second Glynde…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMRoyal Albert Hall: Raymond Gubbay's big arena production of Puccini's tale of romance, laughter and tragedy among penniless artists celebrates its 10th anniversary with a welcome r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMKing's Head Theatre, London: Since its founding in 2009, fringe company OperaUpClose has created bold, new, shoestring re-imaginings of opera classics from Puccini to Monteverdi. Until this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMLinbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Based on the cult novel by Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory is a new one-act opera composed and directed by Ben Frost, premiered in August at the Brege…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMBritten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London: English Touring Opera's autumn triptych of Venetian Baroque operas begins with The Coronation of Poppea, a version of Monteverdi's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMArcola Theatre, London: Held at Dalston's Arcola Theatre, a converted warehouse in unglamorous but increasingly trendy north-east London, Grimeborn Festival has far outgrown its origina…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMWormsley Estate, High Wycombe: Composed by a one-time assistant to Richard Wagner and hailed as a masterpiece by Richard Strauss (who conducted its 1893 premiere), Engelbert Humperdinck'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMThe Old Market, Hove: Reformed pirate Billy Bone is missing. He left Salty Sue, landlady of the The Blasted Bilge Rat, and their baby daughter Pegatty six months ago to go fishing but hasn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMRoyal Opera House, London: Set amid the violent turbulence of revolutionary Rome in 1800, Jonathan Kent's 2006 production of Puccini's impassioned tragedy, enhanced by Paul Brown…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMRoyal Albert Hall, London: Raymond Gubbay gives Bizet's ever-popular operatic tale of fiery but doomed passion the stadium treatment in this Royal Albert Hall venture, first produced in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMTheatre Royal, Windsor: Founded in 1933 when Belarus was part of the Soviet Union (the country became an independent republic in 1990), the Grand Opera of Belarus still proudly declares its …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AMGraham Rogers catches up with Sir John Tomlinson and discusses his many performances in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, career longevity and his role as The Minotaur
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