Bach’s St John Passion has been subjected to a variety of theatrical treatments: staged emotionally by Deborah Warner for English National Opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMA guaranteed crowd-puller, Richard Eyre’s production of La Traviata is still as eye-catching as it was in 1994. Bob Crowley’s set is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMMozart’s seductive anti-hero Don Giovanni has invited reinterpretation by directors from many different points of view. This Grimeborn production from the Arcola
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMMoving from the cloister of an 18th-century manor to a geodesic dome in the 18th-century gardens of Belcombe Court seems to have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMFrancesco Cilea’s L’Arlesiana – based on Daudet’s play L’Arlésienne, a tragic love story set in a Provencal village – never achieved the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMBenjamin Britten’s psychological thriller, based on Henry James’ ambiguous ghost story, must have been doubly shocking in 1950s Britain. This gripping production,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMJonathan Kent’s straightforward production, with handsome designs by the late Paul Brown, has framed some memorable performances since its unveiling in 2006
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMAnnabel Arden’s frenetic production of Rossini’s popular comedy received a mixed reception at its debut in 2016. Happily revival director Sinead O’Neill
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMThe good ship Indomitable sailed into London last night to a hero’s welcome, after triumphs in Milan and Rome. The cast for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMFittingly, OperaUpClose’s new touring production of Mary, Queen of Scots opened in London’s only surviving Elizabethan church, its simple nave transformed into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMEnglish National Opera’s clear and inventive production of The Magic Flute, first seen in 2013 and now on its third revival, is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMGraham Vick’s site-specific production of Shostakovich’s mocking, transgressive opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – which takes place in a seedy nightclub on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMThis punchy new English version of Bizet’s opera, by Mary Franklin and Ashley Pearson, focuses on the seedy, violent aspects of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMAmahl and the Night Visitors has all the ingredients of a Christmas show – lyrical music, a winsome boy hero and a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMThis year’s Yvonne Arnaud pantomime features all the traditional ingredients, along with the spicy wit of a stand-up show. Writer and director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:37AMThe life of Harriet Tubman, African American freedom fighter and former slave, is a gift for an opera composer. Born on a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMMassenet’s operatic fairytale is a thing of perfection, his ravishing melodies supported by shimmering solos and feather-light textures. But director Fiona Shaw
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMPeter Brook’s pared-down’s 1981 version of Bizet’s Carmen, is heady stuff. But it can feel at times like eating too many sweeties:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:27AMOnce you accept that it’s all nonsense, that your senses will be assaulted by a riot of colour and noise, by a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:21AMCelebrating the centenary of votes for women, Spectra Ensemble puts on a rare performance of Ethel Smyth’s jokey opera from 1914, The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53PMThe Jette Parker Young Artists (JPYA) Summer Performance was up against the football World Cup Final and the Wimbledon Final, so it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMLongborough Festival Opera’s theatre-in-a-barn (clad in Classical columns and with seats instead of hay bales) is known for excellent Wagner productions on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05PMSwirling images of naked women, conquests catalogued in ghostly handwriting on palace walls – the video designs by Luke Halls take us
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMLess an opera and more a collection of scenes for opera heroines, Roles is the culmination of Metta Theatre’s residency at the V and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AMWho’d have thought that Gilbert and Sullivan’s baggy old warhorse could be reimagined for eight singers and a piano in a pub
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMIn OperaUpClose’s ambitious pocket production of Eugene Onegin, the rolling Russian landscape of the Larin family estate has been replaced by a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMPeter Maxwell Davies’ violent, unsettling tale of three lighthouse keepers who disappear in mysterious circumstances is especially intense in the modestly-proportioned Hackney
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMKatie Mitchell’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor for the Royal Opera drew howls of protest at its premiere in 2016 for its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMPoor Salieri. Having paved the way for Mozart, whom he admired and encouraged, he became known as the man who killed the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMUtopian thinkers are often dismissed as dreamers, madmen or heretics. But for a brief moment in China’s history, one man succeeded in
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