Friday, 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 06:24AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Coliseum, London: Gershwin's American folk opera returns to the London stage as part of Cape Town Opera's UK tour. It's a major company challenge, brought off here with a comb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Opera House, Buxton: Two rare one-act pieces make up this unusual Buxton double bill of works written around the turn of the 20th century - Sibelius's early The Maiden in the Tower in 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Opera House, Buxton: Stephen Barlow conducts Strauss's domestic comedy - based on a tragi-comic misunderstanding in his own marriage, which might have brought it to a premature end - as…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMOpera House, Buxton: Handel's Biblical oratorios were not written for the stage - an 18th-century ban on the representation of biblical characters prevented their performance other than…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Glyndebourne, Sussex: Salzburg - Mozart's birthplace - or Vienna, where the opera was first performed, might disagree, but Glyndebourne knows that it owns The Marriage of Figaro. The fe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Coliseum, London: Originating at the Manchester International Festival in 2011, Damon Albarn's second opera (following Monkey: Journey to the West) joins ENO's repertory as part of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: The biggest event of the Royal Opera's 2011-12 season, Berlioz's five-act epic The Trojans turns out to be a game of two halves in recently knighted Sir …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Linbury Studio, London: Operating as a receiving house, the Linbury hosts this production of a rare opera by Gluck, written for Bologna in 1763 and apparently never previously performed in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMHolland Park, London: Holland Park's double bill brings together two of the favourite composers at this venue, former student flatmates and subsequently rivals Puccini and Mascagni.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMColiseum, London: Following Michael Grandage's exceptional Glyndebourne staging of Britten's opera, ENO mounts its own version - very different but equally powerful. Whereas Granda…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Garsington, Wormsley: Garsington Opera takes off in a new repertoire direction with this production by multi-talented man-of-the-theatre Jeremy Sams of Offenbach's 1868 opera bouffe. Sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Grange Park, Hampshire: Grange Park often succeeds best when at its boldest, and this new production of Tchaikovsky's psychological roller coaster of a melodrama shows the company near …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Haymarket, Basingstoke: Starting out on its UK tour from Basingstoke, Edward Rushton's new opera - libretto by the Indian writer Jeet Thayil - was premiered in Zurich back in March in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Holland Park, London: Informal and affordable Opera Holland Park opens its festive summer event with Olivia Fuchs's new production of Donizetti's double tragedy. It's among he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: David McVicar's production of Strauss's Oscar Wildean shocker returns for its second Covent Garden revival, this time under the care of Barbara Lluch. It…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Grange Park, Hampshire: Grange Park Opera's season opener is Puccini's Japanese tragedy in a production previously seen at the company's northern offshoot at Nevill Holt. Mark…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Coliseum, London: English National Opera's ambitious season continues with this UK premiere production of a major work by the contemporary German composer Detlev Glanert in a new stagin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Linbury Studio, London: That infinitely adaptable space the Linbury is reconfigured anew to present this new work, incorporating singing, speech, instrumental accompaniment, video and lighti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Glyndebourne, Sussex: Glyndebourne opens the summer opera festival season with a new production of Leos Janacek's piece about the cycle of life, exploring parallels between the existenc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMFriday, May 18, 2012
The Old Municipal Market, Brighton: To the sparest of designs by Anna Jones, The Opera Group's recently appointed artistic director, Frederic Wake-Walker, stages his initial production …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: Robert Carsen's new staging of Verdi's farewell comedy is a co-production with La Scala and the Canadian Opera Company. The setting is the 1950s, with Fa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Barbican, London: Philip Glass' 1976 opera belatedly reaches the UK in this recreation by librettist, set designer and director Robert Wilson, and choreographer Lucinda Childs, of their…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMMonday, May 7, 2012
Grand, LeedsOf all the UK's opera companies, Opera North is the one that most regularly crosses the border into musicals, usually reviving something obscure but worthwhile by the likes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: What looks on paper like a standard (if luxuriously cast) Puccini revival marks the 25th series of performances of John Copley's 1974 production on the Covent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Coliseum, London: Jonathan Kent and ENO music director Edward Gardner make their Wagnerian debuts with this staging of the composer's earliest masterpiece. Each achieves something vital…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Hampstead, London: English National Opera's first co-production with the Hampstead Theatre offers a chamber opera that has been widely performed since its premiere in Hamburg in 1979. I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMMonday, March 19, 2012
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Glasgow-born David McVicar returns to Glasgow-based Scottish Opera for this new production of Stravinsky's opera based on Hogarth's sequence of satirical pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: Punning titles aside, Judith Weir's latest opera, premiered at the Bregenz Festival in Austria last year, creates a mixed impression on its arrival on the com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMMonday, March 12, 2012
Hackney Empire, London: James Conway's 2007 production of Tchaikovsky's popular work is revived as one of the two main-stage operas on English Touring Opera's 2012 spring tour…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: The only one of Dvorak's operas to hold a place in the international repertoire is his "lyric fairytale" of 1901.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AM 
