Thursday, June 22, 2017
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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Katie Mitchell’s production of Janacek’s drama of Czech village life was launched by Welsh National Opera in 1998, when the company was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMThis season Garsington launches a collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra, which plays in the pit for the first time under Dutch conductor
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In some respects Annabel Arden’s treatment of Bizet’s opera is radical. Almost all of the dialogue goes, to be replaced by an
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As a theatre Snape Maltings is technically limited, so it was a brilliant idea on the part of the Aldeburgh Festival to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMBack in 2010 Australian composer Brett Dean had an enormous success with his first opera Bliss, based on a novel by Peter
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In little more than a year, Wasfi Kani has built a new opera house at a new venue in Surrey – a
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A new event at a familiar address, the Grange Festival launches with Monteverdi’s The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland – a
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Last November Oliver Mears set Northern Ireland Opera’s production of Mozart’s dark-toned comedy, Don Giovanni – originally located in an unnamed Spanish
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As the first of two casts takes to the stage for Donizetti’s heart-warming comedy about a fake love potion, Daniel Dooner’s revival
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Sasha Regan’s all-male Gilbert & Sullivan productions are becoming a theatrical institution in their own right. For their success they depend on
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Each summer, a major, popular opera festival takes place just off Kensington High Street in a temporary theatre erected in Holland Park.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBack in the 1960s, Glyndebourne launched the revival of the 17th-century Venetian Francesco Cavalli, with stagings of his then obscure L’Ormindo and
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Six weeks ago, Oliver Mears took over the post of director of opera at the Royal Opera House – the most important
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Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016, Thomas Ades’ third opera is based on the 1962 surrealist film by Spanish director
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Britten theatre, London The Royal College of Music’s European collaboration brings clean-edged chic and character to the French composer’s opéra-ballet spectacleThe distinctively French…
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The current revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s long-running traditional production of Madama Butterfly fields two geishas and two exponents of
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This year, the London Handel Festival’s annual opera is a great rarity: Faramondo, which had eight performances in 1738 and then disappeared
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Originally seen in 2008, Christopher Alden’s staging won the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production the following year, and in its
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In the week when Bryn Terfel receives his knighthood, the world’s leading Wagnerian bass-baritone stars in Royal Opera Director of Opera Kasper
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Thus far there have been at least a dozen attempts to set The Winter’s Tale as an opera, though none of them
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Back in 1962, Scottish Opera’s inaugural season consisted of just two works: Madam Butterfly and Pelleas et Melisande. Debussy’s symbolist opera returns
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A new company debuts with not one opera but three. Snow is a composite work, with one librettist telling three stories all
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The last of three works making up Opera North’s fairytale season, Cinderella – or La Cenerentola, given that the company perform Rossini’s
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The Royal Opera celebrates the 25th anniversary of Angela Gheorghiu’s international debut at the house in 1992 with a revival of Adriana
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Opera North’s fairytale season continues with the most popular of all operatic examples, Hansel and Gretel. Edward Dick’s production sets the action
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A collaboration between brothers Tom and Tobi Poster, The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak is a chamber opera – just two
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Philip Glass, who turns 80 at the end of this month, is one of the most successful, as well as one of
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Opera North’s spring season comprises works from three different European fairytale traditions. Two – Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel and Rossini’s Cinderella –
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A comic-grotesque fantasy in which Nekrotzar – a figure representing Death, the “Grand Macabre” of the title – menaces the pleasure-loving population
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George Benjamin’s second opera, Written on Skin was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012 and made a strong impression when it
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