Monday, October 23, 2017
Franco Alfano has gone down to history as the minor master who accepted the ungrateful task of completing Puccini’s Turandot after the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMFriday, October 20, 2017
The Wexford Festival made no secret of the fact that owing to the severe effects of hurricane Ophelia, the company lost the
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Norwegian director Stefan Herheim’s international career took off in 2009 with an acclaimed Parsifal at Bayreuth, which employed Wagner’s opera as a
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Opera North’s Little Greats season is unusual in that one can pick and choose from different pairings of six short operas in
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English Touring Opera has never been shy of repertoire challenges. In this autumn’s jaunt around a total of 21 venues, it presents
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It is English Touring Opera’s experienced general director, James Conway, who devised and stages this version of Handel’s opera seria, split over
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English Touring Opera’s autumn tour launches with what is effectively half an opera: artistic director James Conway, wishing to play the entirety
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This pairing of Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana in Opera North’s Little Greats season is traditional – though not in this order. Deemed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMBack in 2004, Opera North enjoyed artistic success with Eight Little Greats, a season made up of one-act pieces played in various
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Hackney Empire is clearly strengthening its opera programming. For this flying visit by a European company that is an offshoot of the
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Highlighting seven landmark works in seven cities, the museum is presenting a wealth of artefacts and embracing technology to bring opera to
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It’s good to see the Grange Festival extending its work beyond the summer season with the premiere of a new chamber orchestral
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Reappearing for the sixth time and carefully revived by Thomas Guthrie, David McVicar’s production of The Magic Flute has turned out to
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It is 43 years since the Royal Opera last launched a new La Boheme – the most frequently played opera at this
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British Youth Opera opens its 30th anniversary season with a revival of Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom, first performed by Scottish Opera
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Opera della Luna is unique in specialising in comic opera and operetta, and though it often has stronger material to work with
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Royal Albert Hall, London The John Wilson Orchestra on their annual Proms visit did not disappoint with an impeccable performance of every last quaver of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical …
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Opera in the City Festival’s inaugural programme includes this double bill of recent works, both from the avant-garde end of the spectrum.
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Garsington’s final offering this season is the festival’s second community opera – a work specially written for a combination of professional and
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Claus Guth’s Glyndebourne debut production saw three cast changes in the weeks leading up to the first night, with the title role
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Over the years Opera Holland Park has made a speciality of the operas of Puccini and his contemporaries – a group often
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Opera Holland Park rarely brings a production back, but this show from 2009 proves well worth reviving. Janacek’s 1921 Katya Kabanova is
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First seen in 2011, Mariame Clement’s production of Donizetti’s classic comedy about an elderly man who marries a young woman with disastrous
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The rarely performed Lucio Silla was the last of the three operas Mozart composed for Milan as a teenager – he was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMIt’s an unfortunate planning anomaly that two major festivals decided to stage Britten’s comedy Albert Herring this summer, with the Grange Festival’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMBuxton opens its 2017 festival with Verdi’s first Shakespearean opera – a work he composed in 1847, early on in his career,
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Andrei Serban’s production of Puccini’s Chinese fable Turandot has been a staple of the Royal Opera repertoire since 1984 and continues to
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“This is the best of me”, wrote Elgar at the end of his manuscript, quoting John Ruskin. “This, if anything of mine,
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Grange Park Opera is nothing if not adventurous. Just three weeks after it moves into a newly built theatre at a new
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Mozart composed Mitridate, King of Pontus when he was just 14 for the predecessor of La Scala, Milan. It’s representative of the
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When the world’s most famous tenor takes on for the first time the mighty challenge of the title role of Verdi’s Otello,
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