Tuesday, 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 06:00AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: On the day his Critics' Circle Award as Outstanding Musician 2013 is announced, Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to Covent Garden to conduct The Marriage of Fi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMMonday, September 16, 2013
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The second of Welsh National Opera's Tudor Trilogy of Donizetti historical operas takes to the stage in the shape of Maria Stuarda - his 1835 take on t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Welsh National Opera opens its autumn season with a themed project bringing together three of Donizetti's operas about the Tudor monarchs, whose emotio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMSunday, August 25, 2013
English National Opera stalwart with a vast repertoire who performed in Jonathan Miller's Mikado more than 150 timesRichard Angas, who has died aged 71, was a leading operatic bass whose lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:11AMMonday, July 22, 2013
The Yucca Lawn, Holland Park, London: After three seasons of Tobias Picker's Fantastic Mr Fox, Opera Holland Park rings the changes for its family opera this year, simultaneously commis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMFriday, July 19, 2013
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Premiered by Glyndebourne on tour in 2011, Mariame Clement's alluring staging of Donizetti's comedy arrives at the festival proper. The French director's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Iford Manor, Bradford-on-Avon: Lunacy reigns at Iford Manor, where this tiny but choice venue for summer opera resounds to the merry strains of Offenbach's wickedly worldly opera bouffe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Linbury Studio, London: Written at various times between 1947 and 1974, Britten's canticles set poetic texts that meant much to the composer and were designed for performers he was pers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMTuesday, July 9, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: One of the most visually glamorous productions in the Royal Opera's repertory, La Rondine is back for another revival. Designed by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Sq…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMMonday, July 1, 2013
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne's second new production of the 2013 season represents something of a departure; after winning success with Handel and Purcell, the summer festival turn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMFriday, June 28, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Elijah Moshinsky returns to direct his 1991 production of Verdi's most sombre opera. The staging looks its age, and some previous revivals have achieved a hig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, June 21, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Sixty years after its premiere during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the Royal Opera revives Britten's work about Queen Elizabeth I and her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Coliseum, London: Following successful transfers to Brussels and to La Scala, Milan, Deborah Warner's staging of Britten's last opera returns to the Coliseum for a second run. This…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Aldeburgh Beach: Celebrations of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth are taking place in 39 countries, such is the widespread appeal of one of our greatest composers. Few will hav…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Michael Grandage's production - a major success when it opened last summer - makes it first return to the festival in the care of revival director Ian Rutherford. I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, June 7, 2013
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The British composer Jonathan Harvey - internationally admired for his complex and colourful music, which combined a broad and non-dogmatic modernist aesthe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park opens its summer season with a double bill of the two works opera fans usually call just 'Cav & Pag'. Mascagni's Cavalleria began …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMMonday, June 3, 2013
Coliseum, London: Jointly commissioned by ENO and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Philip Glass' 24th opera arrives in the UK following its premiere in Spain in January. ENO has a solid track…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne opens the summer festival season with a new production of the elegant Strauss/Hofmannsthal conceit in which preparations for a new opera seria by a young co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMRoyal Opera House, London: The original plan was for the Royal Opera to share Luis Pasqual's production of Rossini's opera based on Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lak…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMMonday, May 13, 2013
Coliseum, London: English National Opera's new production of Berg's modernist masterpiece was originally due to be directed by Rupert Goold, whose previous staging at the London Co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Grand, Leeds: Handel's 1748 oratorio is rarely performed, so Opera North's staging - imaginatively directed, designed and lit by Charles Edwards - is an all the more welcome additi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Palladium, Cologne: During his lifetime - he died in 1933, aged 55 - the Austrian composer Franz Schreker rose to a position rivalling that of Richard Strauss in the German operatic world; b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Barbican, London: English National Opera moves to the Barbican Theatre for this world premiere of a work by the multi-prize-winning Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, whose self-styled '…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Designed by Tom Scutt, Harry Fehr's production of the first of Wagner's standard repertory operas presents it in the original Scottish setting the composer …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: David Bruce's family opera is based on Philip Pullman's fairy tale novel via Glyn Maxwell's libretto. One of the co-commissioners of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Churchill, Bromley: In theory, at least, the sheer scale of Verdi's opera should put it beyond <a href="http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/">English Touring Opera's&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMMonday, March 11, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012, George Benjamin's first full-scale opera arrives at Covent Garden in the same production - staged by K…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Coliseum, LondonJonathan Miller's classic staging, first seen in 1987, is back for another run. This time, there's a soprano Rosina, instead of the lower mezzo the part was written for. What…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMThursday, February 21, 2013
Coliseum, London: Adventurous programming continues at the Coliseum with the UK stage premiere of a neglected 1693 masterpiece by the comparatively little known French Baroque composer Marc-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AM 
