Tuesday, 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 05:25AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Coliseum, London: ENO turns again to Handel, offering a new production by Richard Jones of a work considered one of the composer's finest. Like most Handelian plots, this is a complicat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMThursday, February 27, 2014
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Welsh National Opera's Fallen Women season continues with this rare production of Hans Werner Henze's 1952 opera on the Manon Lescaut theme. Polis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMMonday, February 17, 2014
Linbury Studio, London: English Touring Opera's general director, James Conway, is nothing if not ambitious for his company, and its current season is one of the boldest it has yet moun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMFriday, February 14, 2014
Coliseum, London: The opening night of Christopher Alden's staging marked a significant moment for English National Opera, because it replaced what has been for more than three decades …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMMonday, February 10, 2014
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Welsh National Opera's spring season focuses on Fallen Women, as represented by Verdi's La traviata alongside Manon Lescaut as portrayed both by P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMMonday, February 3, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Back in February 2013, Eugene Onegin - Kasper Holten's first production for the Royal Opera - took to the Covent Garden stage and duly sank; so it is pleasant…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Coliseum, London: Originated in 2009, David Alden's production of Britten's first major opera returns to the Coliseum. It was acclaimed on its initial appearance, and although issu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Though not one of Puccini's best known operas, The Girl of the Golden West, based (like Madam Butterfly) on a once famous play by the American man-of-the-theatre D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Revived by Christian Rath, Laurent Pelly's staging of Massenet's romantic classic - a significant success when new in 2010 - returns to the Covent Garden…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMMonday, December 30, 2013
George Hall reflects on 2013's notable triumphs in a year of significant bicentennials
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Francesca Zambello's 2006 staging returns for another revival. Even the original was less than distinguished visually, and this revival is certainly no better…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Linbury Studio, London: The Royal Opera's Christmas show takes place in the Linbury, where Julian Philips' new opera, to a libretto by Edward Kemp based on Ted Hughes' stories…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Coliseum, London: In his introductory note in the programme booklet, ENO's artistic director John Berry tells us that <a href="http://www.eno.org/satyagraha"> Satyagraha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Coliseum, London: It was always going to be a problem replacing Nicholas Hytner's production of The Magic Flute. Graced by Bob Crowley's elegant designs, the show debuted in 1988 a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, Spain: First seen in Salzburg in 2005, Willy Decker's physically demanding, modern dress staging of Verdi's classic version of La Dame aux …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Valencia, Spain: When it opened in 2005, the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia - part of the City of Arts and Sciences built on Valencia's former river bed - …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Keith Warner's 2002 production of Berg's opera returns for a second revival. For a work that should pack a theatrical body blow, its impact feels surpris…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMTuesday, October 22, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: It seems extraordinary that a mature opera by Verdi should be receiving its first production at Covent Garden, but such is the case with The Sicilian Vespers, a ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMFriday, October 18, 2013
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Britten's final stage work enters Opera North's repertoire as part of the company's Festival of Britten season. Premiered at the Snape Maltings as part o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Linbury Studio, London: Meet the Young Artists Week offers a chance to see the work of those selected for the current crop of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Artists, who perform two pie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMTuesday, October 15, 2013
Coliseum, London: Anthony Minghella's only opera production returns for another run. It's not a vintage cast, though there are good elements, but overall the show seems to have gon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Britten Theatre, London: Most of Handel's operas were composed for London theatres and audiences � an exception is the early Agrippina, written in 1709 for Venice, and thus slotting p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Donizetti's love-potion comedy returns as part of the autumn tour repertory in Annabel Arden's production, which updates the action harmlessly to the mid-20th …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMMonday, October 7, 2013
Britten Theatre, London: English Touring Opera's imaginative season of Venetian Baroque works continues with one of 17th century opera's greatest successes in the shape of Cavalli&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMGlyndebourne, Lewes: Skilfully revived by James Bonas, Laurent Pelly's 2008 production of Humperdinck's opera launches Glyndebourne's autumn tour. Visually it remains a distin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: With two out of the three works already in the repertoire, Welsh National Opera opens the third instalment of its Tudor trilogy. Alessandro Talevi directs -…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Coliseum, London: ENO's new Fledermaus is anything but a traditional version of the show. In Allen Moyer's set and Constance Hoffman's often spectacular metrosexual costumes, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Kings Head, London: Flourish is the name of a competition inaugurated last year for new works designed for OperaUpClose to perform at the Kings Head Theatre. The first prize-winners are libr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThursday, September 26, 2013
Coliseum, London: ENO opens its season with a new staging of Beethoven's only opera directed by the Catalan Calixto Bieito, whose previous work with the company has proved distinctly mi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Strauss's concentrated retelling of the dark story of Agamemnon's daughter Elektra, and her burning desire for revenge on her mother Klytemnestra -- who …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AM 
