The director of The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley, Anthony Minghella directed just one opera, this Madam Butterfly for English
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMAged 90, the sitar maestro Ravi Shankar announced he was going to write an opera. He died before its completion, and it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMJonathan Miller’s English National Opera Mikado – which transfers the operetta’s action from Japan to a British grand hotel in the 1930s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMThis fast-paced, hour-long triple bill at the Grimeborn Festival brings together three pieces linked by the theme of chance. Barber’s nine-minute A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:44AMWith music and words respectively by New Zealanders Gillian Whitehead and Fleur Adcock, Hotspur (1980) centres on Elizabeth Mortimer (1371–1417), the wife
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMThough ‘classically’ trained, Belize-born composer Errollyn Wallen has throughout her career embraced pop-music influences as a singer-songwriter. Singing at the keyboard, she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMThe Tete a Tete festival’s mixed bills are a music-theatre party bag. There might be the odd liquorice nightmare in there, but
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMWith only a month to go before 2019, the centenary of the 1918 Armistice is marked in operatic form with this widely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMA sophisticated but relatively recent theatrical genre, Jingju (Peking Opera) achieved its current form in the 19th century. It draws on many
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMOne of the most popular of all operettas, The Merry Widow follows the attempts of Baron Zeta, the Pontevedrian ambassador in Paris,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMStockhausen’s seven-opera cycle Licht aside, Wagner’s vast operatic tetralogy the Ring remains the most ambitious (and costly) project an opera house can
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMFollowing their first opera The Last Hotel, a chilling tale in which a couple helps a woman to commit suicide, composer Donnacha
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMThe one thing you can be sure of with a Tete a Tete triple bill is unpredictability. And yet on this occasion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMThe Tete a Tete Opera Festival, running until August 18, thrives on the new and the experimental, so the 80-minute monodrama Mary’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMIn Wagner’s Der Fliegende Hollander, the ‘romantic wanderer’ figure takes on a supernatural element. The titular sea-captain is condemned to sail the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMIf Marvel’s Avengers and DC’s Justice League can do it, then so can opera. For its second production the enterprising company the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMThis is the first of two King’s Head Theatre shows transferring to the West End, the company now having left its home
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMSeventh-century Lombardy, the setting of Handel’s Rodelinda, may feel remote even by opera seria standards, but in Richard Jones’ English National Opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AMIt’s a shame, given that Rossini’s comedy The Barber of Seville delivers in primary colours, that Annabel Arden’s production doesn’t match the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMWritten in 1992, Nick Hornby’s million-selling semi-autobiographical first novel about a fan’s obsession with Arsenal has been made into two films –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMWith subjects ranging from Brexit to a Mars mission, from Trump to the Berlin Wall, this year’s 10th-anniversary Tete a Tete opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMMartin Duncan’s 2011 production of Rossini’s frothy and at times acerbic comedy makes its first return at Garsington. It’s an evening that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMBeethoven’s message in his only opera, Fidelio, is that love and courage can counter oppression and leverage freedom. It’s a testament to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMViewed by some as the most crusty of art forms, opera has occasionally tried too hard to reinvent itself, to be ‘relevant’,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMGarsington’s new production of Handel’s Semele, directed by Annilese Miskimmon (soon to join Oslo National Opera as Artistic Director), is something of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMGlyndebourne’s website points to the “visual beauty’ and “opulent” production of Verdi’s tragic profile of the consumptive courtesan Violetta and her selfless
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMWhen opera was born, in Florence around 1600, no one could have imagined that it might develop from its intimate courtly origins
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMOne of opera’s great (and unsettling) monologues, Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine is a vocal and dramatic tour de force for soprano. Based
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMWith its golden-domed, Iznik-tiled Arab Hall, the sumptuous orientalism of Leighton House – former home of the Victorian painter Frederic Leighton –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMRichard Eyre’s production of Verdi’s tuneful crowd-pleaser returns for its 14th revival, determined, it seems, to earn its keep. With a cast
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