Monday, May 21, 2018
A decade ago, Sasha Regan started to dust off the national institution of Gilbert and Sullivan operas and gave them a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMWhen new in 2014, Richard Jones’ production was deemed radical. It certainly departs from the traditional mid-18th-century setting of Strauss’s romantic comedy,
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When his first opera Into the Little Hill was premiered in Paris in 2006, George Benjamin was already 46. His chamber-scale piece
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The poems on which Janacek based his song-cycle The Diary of One Who Vanished were published in a Czech newspaper in 1916.
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Following its unveiling at this address in 2016, Philip Venables’ setting of Sarah Kane’s final play 4.48 Psychosis garnered major awards from
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Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera Coraline represents a departure for its 57-year-old composer. Its source is a multi-award-winning children’s novella by Neil Gaiman,
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As with several other unappealing Royal Opera productions, Phyllida Lloyd’s 2002 staging survives because at each revival the company can slot in
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According to Operabase.com the most frequently performed opera in the world is currently Verdi’s La Traviata. For this reason, every opera company
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Under Graham Vick’s quasi-evangelical direction, Birmingham Opera Company’s mission to reconfigure the art form continues with Wake, a new work in which
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Posthumously premiered in 1930 and based on Dostoyevsky’s semi-autobiographical novella about his experiences as a political prisoner in 19th-century Russia, Janacek’s final
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English Touring Opera opens its enormous spring tour – more than 20 venues – with Mozart’s perennially popular comedy in a traditional
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There’s an obvious irony in English National Opera opening A Midsummer Night’s Dream while snow covers the streets around St Martin’s Lane,
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How do you stage a radio play? In the case of this presentation by the contemporary/experimental music and performance group An assembly,
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Since its premiere in San Francisco in 2000, Jake Heggie’s first opera has received a slew of productions in the United States
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When Jonathan Dove’s first full-scale stage work was premiered by Glyndebourne Touring Opera back in 1998, it would have been impossible to
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26 years old this year, Michael Blakemore’s staging of Puccini’s thriller is showing its age. It’s not so much that Ashley Martin-Davis’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMIt’s ironic that just when it is announced that the contract of Welsh National Opera’s artistic director will not be renewed, David
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He’s worked with James Corden, Spider-Man and Paddington, now Cal McCrystal is directing Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe for the ENO and he’s
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From the world’s most in-demand opera director, the Royal Opera’s new Carmen ditches sultry stereotypes in favour of music hall spectacle. He
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The most successful staging of a contemporary work English National Opera has ever presented, Phelim McDermott’s production of Philip Glass’ opera about
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Another opening night, another sad memorial. The first performance of this revival of Jonathan Kent’s Tosca, first seen in 2006, was dedicated
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Two years ago the Royal Opera and the Roundhouse collaborated on a production of Monteverdi’s Orfeo that set out to win new
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At 10 years old this year, David McVicar’s staging – and where would the Royal Opera be without him? – has worn
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The first night of this revival of David McVicar’s staging of Rigoletto was dedicated to the memory of Dmitri Hvorostovsky, who was
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When Sebastian F Schwarz was announced as the successor to David Pickard as Glyndebourne‘s general director in November 2015, all looked set
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Premiered two years apart in the early 1890s, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci soon became conjoined as a perennially successful double bill. Rodula
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The Royal Opera’s new production of Rossini’s melodramma tragico Semiramide – its first full staging at the venue since 1887 – was
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Back in June 2011 English National Opera staged the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s first opera, Two Boys – a co-production with
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Glyndebourne has more experience in staging new youth operas than any other UK company. The work of composer Lewis Murphy and librettist
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Back in 2013 the Wexford Festival had a hit on its hands with Cristina, regina di Svezia – a rediscovery from the
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Franco Alfano has gone down to history as the minor master who accepted the ungrateful task of completing Puccini’s Turandot after the
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