Friday, July 18, 2014
Glyndebourne, Lewes: The third new production of Glyndebourne's 2014 season is Verdi's popular classic, and Tom Cairns' staging, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, brings the act…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Coliseum, London: Though it is officially a theatre for young audiences in the Russian capital, there is nothing about the Moscow State Music Theatre's production of Rimsky-Korsakov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThursday, July 10, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Forty years after its first night, John Copley's production of Puccini's tragic Parisian romance returns yet again for another revival exemplifying tradi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
Iford Manor, Wiltshire: Director Jeff Clarke's bespoke staging for the Iford Festival of Donizetti's classic comedy moves it from the original 19th century Tyrolean military settin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMMonday, July 7, 2014
Grange Park, Alresford, nr Winchester: It is rare for Grange Park Opera to mount a revival, but this restaging of Antony McDonald's self-designed 2012 production of Tchaikovsky's o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park introduces a new repertoire strand with its first ever staging of a work by Benjamin Britten, placed in the hands of a talented director; unfortunate…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMMonday, June 30, 2014
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Mozart's 1775 work is new to Glyndebourne Festival Opera, which has waited until its 80th anniversary season before presenting it. The composer wrote it when he was…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Christof Loy returns to direct his production, which reopened the Royal Opera House following its major refit in 2002. A brilliant piece of music theatre when firs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Garsington at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire: New to Garsington's repertory is Janacek's moving opera drawing parallels between the lives of humans and those of forest animals, as well …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Two of today's leading opera stars take to the stage in Jonathan Kent's new production of Puccini's romantic tragedy. No complaints about them. Perf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh: Founded by Benjamin Britten back in 1947, the Aldeburgh Festival has no true opera house in which to stage the works of the UK's greatest opera composer, but …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMWales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: A double bill of one-act operas setting Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious tale The Fall of the House of Usher brings WNO's season to an end. The first …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: A signature piece for the company, Verdi's early, Biblical opera returns to Welsh National Opera in a staging by Austrian Rudolf Frey, whose Maria Stua…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Garsington at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire: Garsington's artistic director, conductor Douglas Boyd, takes charge of the first show of the season - Beethoven's only opera, in a product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMFriday, June 6, 2014
Coliseum, London: Berlioz's first opera fell flat at its premiere in 1838, and has continued to do so at most of its infrequent revivals ever since; yet following his broad success with…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park's summer season gets off to a flying start with Stephen Barlow's new production of Puccini's opera based on David Belasco's once …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMMonday, June 2, 2014
Grange Park, Northington: One of the most ambitious of the UK's opera festivals, Grange Park's new Britten staging by all round man of the theatre Jeremy Sams shows the company ope…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMRoyal Opera House, London: First seen in Amsterdam in 1997, Robert Carsen's gripping production has been widely restaged - in Madrid, Vienna and Toronto, as well as at La Scala, Milan. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: In what has already been an ambitious season, WNO's biggest challenge is this rare production of Schoenberg's unfinished masterpiece - last given …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Coliseum, London: When English National Opera's production of Mozart's comedy was originally scheduled, the director was announced as Katie Mitchell. For reasons unknown, she subse…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMGlyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne launches the summer festival season with a new production by Richard Jones of Strauss's popular comedy, with conductor Robin Ticciati undertaking his f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMMonday, May 12, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: The first of two casts takes to the stage in the latest revival of Jonathan Kent's 2006 production, rehearsed by Andrew Sinclair. Like the recent Traviata, fr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
Coliseum, London: It has been far too long since English National Opera last presented the premiere of a major new opera by a British composer, but in Julian Anderson's Thebans the comp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Linbury Studio, LondonThe musical-dramatic pacing is swift and almost cinematic an aspect reinforced by the use of screens with multiple CCTV images placed at the back of the stageWhile Gou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMThursday, April 3, 2014
Ambika P3, London: When it was first performed back in 1995, Thomas Ades's first opera, to a scabrous libretto by Philip Hensher, made the composer's reputation while becoming noto…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMWednesday, March 26, 2014
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: Having opened just two months ago, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse hosts its first opera in the shape of Cavalli's rarely performed L'Ormindo. Dating f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Linbury Studio, London: A joint venture by the Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North brings forth two new chamber operas, with the same pattern to be repeated over the next couple of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Richard Strauss was born 150 years ago, and the Royal Opera's major contribution to the celebrations is this new production of his most ambitious opera, which…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMMonday, March 10, 2014
Hackney Empire, London: Joining operas by Britten and Tippett on ETO's national tour is Mozart's philosophical comedy, due to play some 17 venues from Truro to Perth between now an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
Britten Theatre, London: A regular highlight of the London Handel Festival - now in its 37th edition - is its annual operatic presentation at the Britten Theatre, an ideal venue for such ent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: At this revival of Laurent Pelly's sparkling production of Donizetti's sentimental comedy, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa steps into the cameo speaking role of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:25AM 
