Thursday, 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 06:39AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Grand Opera House, Belfast: Founded as recently as 2010, NI Opera is amply fulfilling its aims of producing high quality opera and developing young Northern Irish talent with this ambitious …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMTheatre Royal, Glasgow: Massenet's romantic tragedy joins Scottish Opera repertoire in a new staging by up-and-coming director Pia Furtado. Designer Helen Goddard's costumes sugges…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMTuesday, February 5, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Opera's new Onegin marks the first production at Covent Garden by the company's recently appointed director of opera, Kasper Holten, whose arri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Coliseum, London: An ongoing problem for the current ENO administration has been an ability to provide new productions of standard repertory pieces that are keepers - able to be revived year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Grand Theatre, Leeds: John Fulljames' new production of Mozart's late opera The Clemency of Titus makes a strong case for a work still relatively sidelined among his mature output.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMFriday, January 18, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: First seen in 2008, Harrison Birtwistle's inescapably dark opera about the mythical half-man, half-beast that inhabits the legendary labyrinth on the Minoan i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMThursday, January 17, 2013
Grand, Leeds: The Verdi bicentenary gets off to a flying start with Opera North's new production of Italian opera's greatest setting of a Shakespearian tragedy, directed by Tim Alb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMFriday, December 28, 2012
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: John Copley's traditional 1974 staging of Puccini's Parisian romance is back for yet another revival whose main point of interest is the return of Roland…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: It was back in 1890 that Covent Garden last staged Meyerbeer's grand opera - once a repertory mainstay that subsequently fell out of fashion with the rest of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Coliseum, London: English National Opera has been without a production of the most popular of all titles since Sally Potter's incoherent staging flopped disastrously back in 2007. By br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMWednesday, November 14, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: New in 2007, Laurent Pelly's staging of Donizetti's love potion comedy is revived for the second time. More roughly hewn and bordering on the vulgar this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
Coliseum, London: First performed at Covent Garden in 1951, Vaughan Williams' 'morality' is a full-scale operatic treatment of John Bunyan's Christian allegory, published…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Barbican, London: Oliver Knussen's 60th birthday is celebrated with a two-day focus on his work at the Barbican, beginning with this staging of his double bill based on books by Maurice…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:54AMMonday, October 29, 2012
Opera House, Wexford: This year's Delius anniversary - he was born in Bradford in 1862 - has been widely celebrated in the UK, although his operas have largely been left out of the pict…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Opera House, Wexford : Chabrier's 1887 comic opera has enjoyed a limited career inside his native France as elsewhere. Seeing Thaddeus Strassberger's busy production (shared with t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMThursday, October 25, 2012
Opera House, Wexford: Wexford opens its 61st festival - a regular haunt for those wishing to sample worthwhile operas that have fallen by the wayside - with The Girl from Arles by Francesco…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
Jerwood Studio, Glyndebourne: Julian Philips' opera is based on a work by the Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros (1845-1900) that tells an anti-heroic tale about Godofredo, a retiring bus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMMonday, October 15, 2012
Grand, Leeds: Opera North's production of Gounod's classic is an unusual one from several points of view. Rather than just playing the standard edition of the score, it takes in se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Leeds Grand Theatre: Not all productions of Mozart's opera remember that both the composer and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, thought of their piece as a comedy, and it is a virtue o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Coliseum, London: Proud of its achievements as the 'House of Handel', a commitment that began with groundbreaking stagings of Julius Caesar and Xerxes in the 1970s and 1980s but ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Opera is celebrating the Wagner anniversary early - 2013 marks 200 years since his birth - with four cycles of Keith Warner's Ring production. When …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Coliseum, London: ENO's first new production of the season brings to the Coliseum Richard Jones' staging of Martinu's surrealistic dreamscape, already seen in Paris and Geneva…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Arcola, London: While the Arcola is being refurbished, Grimeborn offers its varied alternative opera festival in a comfortable tent not far from its regular headquarters. One of nine differe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMThursday, August 23, 2012
Argyle Warehouse, Birmingham: Birmingham Opera Company brings off a tremendous coup by staging the world premiere production of Mittwoch (or Wednesday) from Licht (Light), Stockhausen's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Glyndebourne, East Sussex: Glyndebourne's final production of the season brings together Ravel's two short operas, which make a neat double bill. The title of the first, L'heu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMWednesday, August 1, 2012
Iford Manor, Wiltshire: The Cloisters in the lovely gardens at Iford Manor have provided the intimate setting for Iford Festival's operatic productions since 1996. Though slimmed down c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMMonday, July 23, 2012
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Purcell's semi-opera returns to the Glyndebourne stage in a revival of Jonathan Kent's all-singing, all-dancing production, welcomed on its first arrival at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Holland Park, London: While Opera Holland Park is one of the most approachable companies in the UK, curiously it operates a more rigid language policy than almost any other outfit. Tchaikovs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: The end of season finds the Royal Opera on remarkable form in Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece. From the moment Antonio Pappano launches the overwhelming sto…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM 
