Monday, June 10, 2019
Massenet’s fairytale opera entered Glyndebourne via the company’s 2018 tour. Fiona Shaw’s production didn’t quite work on that occasion, and is now
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Czech composer Janacek began The Diary of One Who Disappeared in August 1917, shortly after his fateful meeting with Kamila Stosslova, a
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Former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has collaborated with Garsington’s artistic director, conductor Douglas Boyd (no relation) before, though this
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The opening production of Garsington Opera’s 30th-anniversary season finds the festival at the top of its game. The Philharmonia – one of
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A mystery illness almost put paid to her promising operatic career before it had started. Now, as the British soprano takes on
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Forget Wagner’s Ring: the largest of operatic cycles is Stockhausen’s Licht (Light), its seven parts each named after a day of the
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If you believe you have a voice strong enough to be heard at the back of a concert hall while delivering a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMUmberto Giordano’s French Revolution drama focuses on a poet whose views prove unwelcome to both sides. Moreover, the allegiance of his rival
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Glyndebourne launches the festival season with a problematic work. Berlioz wrote The Damnation of Faust as a cantata for the concert hall,
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Premiered in Berlin in 2007, Hans Werner Henze’s penultimate opera takes a classical legend and toys creatively with it. Christian Lehnert’s libretto
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This first collaboration between English National Opera and the Unicorn Theatre takes the form of a small-scale show designed for an audience
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Opera, of course, this isn’t – though Richard Ayres has already composed two of them: The Cricket Recovers, a success at its
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Charles Court Opera returns to the King’s Head with its small but perfectly formed staging of one of the finest Gilbert and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMThe news that Daniel Kramer is to leave English National Opera, the company he has led for the past three years, is
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Celebrated mezzo Rosalind Plowright shows no sign of slowing down as she prepares to mark her 70th birthday with back-to-back roles. She
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn 13 years, New Zealander Alex Reedijk has pulled Scottish Opera back from the brink, turning it into a thriving company that
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Due to sing Marguerite in this revival of David McVicar’s 2004 production, star German soprano Diana Damrau pulled out a week ago
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The notorious serial-killer nicknamed Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate, with countless books, films, documentaries, tours and websites catering to a seemingly
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One of Royal Opera director Oliver Mears’ initiatives is to bring back to Covent Garden the numerous works Handel premiered there. The
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Rumour on the operatic street has it that tickets for Christof Loy’s new production of La Forza del Destino are reselling for as
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Scottish Opera’s fine production of Katya Kabanova – directed by Stephen Lawless, vividly conducted by Stuart Stratford, and performed in the original
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One of two major works that he is directing as part of English Touring Opera’s spring tour, James Conway’s Idomeneo is a
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Rossini’s 1815 opera marked his debut in Naples, where he was to remain for eight years, turning the San Carlo Theatre into
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMEvery couple of years Glyndebourne stages a new work involving its youth wing and other non-professionals, who combine with professional principals, band
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMOperetta is the trickiest of all genres: its performers have to be able to sing with operatic skill, put over reams of
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Founded three years ago, the Opera Story has produced two new works, both of them genuine successes: Snow (2017) collated three shorter
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In its rebuilt form, Wilton’s Music Hall dates from exactly the same period as the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, whose premiere
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English National Opera’s collaboration with Improbable and its director Phelim McDermott on Philip Glass’ 1984 opera returns for its first revival. It
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Introduced to the UK opera scene by Lesley Garrett, conductor Carlo Rizzi had two stints as musical director at Welsh National Opera
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Three UK companies are staging Janacek’s tragedy of Russian provincial life almost simultaneously. Opera North’s revival of Tim Albery’s 2007 production opened
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