Friday, August 3, 2018
After the demise of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, Ian Smith feared Gilbert and Sullivan’s legacy might fade into obscurity, so he
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Back in 1909, Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot’s ‘fantastical musical play’ The Arcadians was an enormous hit, running for 809 performances –
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For its second summer offering Dorset Opera returns to the tried and tested with Puccini’s classic – a work that never palls
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMGiven Jules Massenet’s unassailable position in the pantheon of 19th-century French opera composers, it seems inexplicable that such a major work as
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Following its first appearance in 2015, Barrie Kosky’s all-singing, all-dancing production of Handel’s oratorio Saul is back for this festival revival. Whatever
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This concert performance is of interest because it represents the belated world premiere of a mature score by a major opera composer.
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In its original version, Donizetti’s The Daughter of the Regiment is a light comedy with a military background: Marie, abandoned on the
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Despite being a relatively familiar title, Mozart’s Idomeneo is a challenging assignment for Buxton, with a clutch of demanding central roles and
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Towards the end of a strong season, Garsington unveils a new opera – other than community works the first at this venue.
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Last month the Grange Festival opened a production of Handel’s Agrippina in sets that repeatedly referenced the venue itself and its recent
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For the second production of its first season in its new opera house, Nevill Holt takes on a modern classic and presents
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Puccini’s most popular work – indeed the most popular piece in the entire operatic repertoire these days – La Boheme returns in
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At the age of 85, John Copley – Britain’s most experienced opera director – stages Mozart’s Turkish comedy The Abduction from the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMCharles Gounod’s second most popular opera (after Faust), Romeo et Juliette suffers from the composer falling in love with the sheer loveliness
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The second operatic collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and poet Nick Drake focuses on climate change. In a ‘near-future’ world decimated by
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Bruno Ravella’s staging of Verdi’s final opera Falstaff — based on The Merry Wives of Windsor — is set around the time
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Opera companies sometimes use musicals as a way of replenishing the coffers. Others – such as Grange Park Opera – have developed
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The headline news is that Nevill Holt Opera has created and opened an outstanding new purpose-built theatre, seating 400, possessing a superb
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New at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival, Emily Howard’s chamber opera To See The Invisible has been freely adapted by playwright Selma Dimitrijevic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMMonday, June 11, 2018
David McVicar’s Glyndebourne staging of Julius Caesar in Egypt was an overwhelming success back in 2005, helping to consolidate the position of
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The last new Royal Opera Lohengrin was in 1977, when Elijah Moshinsky’s finest staging for the company had its premiere; but following
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Just as Shakespeare has his problem plays, Mozart has Cosi Fan Tutte – one might translate the title as That’s What Women
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMGarsington has a long track record with Richard Strauss, and in their 30th season, they return to his operatic will and testament,
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Mozart’s Magic Flute is many things: a pantomime, a philosophical drama, a lowbrow comedy, a spiritual quest, a fairy-tale. Reconciling all of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMJust what exactly is Candide? There’s no neat answer. Jeff Clarke – who stages Iford’s production – admits that, like The Tales
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Opera Holland Park’s season opener is Verdi’s popular classic, played in Cordelia Chisholm’s elegant period designs evoking the sophistication and sexual ambiguity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMWNO is in rude health on many fronts, but its boss tells George Hall of her mission not just to secure the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:12PMAfter performing for 13 years in a temporary structure in a stable yard, Nevill Holt Opera is to open a purpose-built theatre.
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As the English language opera company marks five decades of performing in residence at the London Coliseum, George Hall toasts some of
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Credited with introducing several operas to this country, the annual festival returns with a UK stage premiere of Massenet’s Le Cid as
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A decade ago, Sasha Regan started to dust off the national institution of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and gave them a new
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