Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Die Fledermaus was 19th-century ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss’ biggest hit operetta, its longevity ensured by bubbliness and an abundance of hummable tunes.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMTuesday, June 25, 2019
Barrie Kosky’s Carmen, returning to the Royal Opera House for the third time, rebels against the opera’s traditional 19th century Spanish visuals.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMMonday, June 11, 2018
Anyone who finds Handel’s more famous operas po-faced and burdened with endless da capo arias will appreciate Agrippina’s relative brevity and snappier
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMWednesday, December 13, 2017
W11 Opera is a remarkable company. Founded in 1971, it offers the invaluable opportunity for 80 schoolchildren aged nine-18 to participate in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:43AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
Australian composer Brett Dean’s operatic treatment of Hamlet, with a Bard-bowdlerising libretto by Matthew Jocelyn, premiered in Glyndebourne in June. Now it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:32AMWednesday, September 13, 2017
With its trippy dream-world setting, Mozart’s The Magic Flute is perfect fodder for inventive reimaginings, especially as the racism, masonic mysticism and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00PMMonday, March 13, 2017
English Touring Opera’s first foray into the world of Gilbert and Sullivan proves emphatically that it shouldn’t be its last. The main
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMMonday, February 27, 2017
Ellen Kent has been touring opera throughout the UK and Ireland for 25 years, and shows no sign of diminished passion for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMMonday, December 5, 2016
Routinely mentioned in the same breath as Rigoletto and La Traviata, Verdi’s two other seminal operas from the early 1850s, this grisly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMMonday, November 14, 2016
Founded in 1990, Hampstead Garden Opera performs two valuable roles: an opportunity for young singers to participate in staged productions, and to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMFriday, September 2, 2016
One of the most successful women in opera management, Annilese Miskimmon has held the high-profile post of Danish National Opera’s artistic director
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFriday, December 12, 2014
Young Vic, London: English National Opera's first purpose-written children's opera offers London audiences the second chance this year to experience a staging of Oliver Jeffers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMMonday, November 17, 2014
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London: When is the perfect girlfriend too perfect? When she seems always, uncannily, on your wavelength? When she repeats the same perfect moves i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMThursday, October 30, 2014
Coliseum, London: One of the first so-called verismo operas, there is not usually a 'real-life' feel to La Boheme - something Jonathan Miller's 2009 production attempts to add…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMonday, October 13, 2014
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Following previous collaborations with heavy-weight American composer Philip Glass (most recently In the Penal Colony in 2010), smal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Since its 2011 Royal Opera House world premiere, Mark-Anthony Turnage's operatic treatment of the tragic life-story of Texan Playboy model and TV perso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMMonday, August 11, 2014
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Robert Carson's sometimes silly but entertaining take on Handel's musically supreme fantasy opera returns to Glyndebourne for its first revival. Though packed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMMonday, July 7, 2014
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: Donizetti's 1835 romantic opera on Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) is based on a Schiller play which, like Shakespeare histories, has a re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Grange Park Opera, Alresford: Summer opera festivals, such as Hampshire's Grange Park Opera, often offer more adventurous repertoire than major houses - perhaps because summer audiences…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Glyndebourne: Jonathan Kent's grey-hued but lively 1950s-set production of Mozart's dark comedy on the antics and retribution of the titular womaniser returns for its second Glynde…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMFriday, February 28, 2014
Royal Albert Hall: Raymond Gubbay's big arena production of Puccini's tale of romance, laughter and tragedy among penniless artists celebrates its 10th anniversary with a welcome r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
King's Head Theatre, London: Since its founding in 2009, fringe company OperaUpClose has created bold, new, shoestring re-imaginings of opera classics from Puccini to Monteverdi. Until this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Based on the cult novel by Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory is a new one-act opera composed and directed by Ben Frost, premiered in August at the Brege…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMMonday, September 30, 2013
Britten Theatre, Royal College of Music, London: English Touring Opera's autumn triptych of Venetian Baroque operas begins with The Coronation of Poppea, a version of Monteverdi's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMFriday, August 9, 2013
Arcola Theatre, London: Held at Dalston's Arcola Theatre, a converted warehouse in unglamorous but increasingly trendy north-east London, Grimeborn Festival has far outgrown its origina…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe: Composed by a one-time assistant to Richard Wagner and hailed as a masterpiece by Richard Strauss (who conducted its 1893 premiere), Engelbert Humperdinck'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
The Old Market, Hove: Reformed pirate Billy Bone is missing. He left Salty Sue, landlady of the The Blasted Bilge Rat, and their baby daughter Pegatty six months ago to go fishing but hasn&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Set amid the violent turbulence of revolutionary Rome in 1800, Jonathan Kent's 2006 production of Puccini's impassioned tragedy, enhanced by Paul Brown&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMFriday, February 22, 2013
Royal Albert Hall, London: Raymond Gubbay gives Bizet's ever-popular operatic tale of fiery but doomed passion the stadium treatment in this Royal Albert Hall venture, first produced in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMTuesday, January 29, 2013
Theatre Royal, Windsor: Founded in 1933 when Belarus was part of the Soviet Union (the country became an independent republic in 1990), the Grand Opera of Belarus still proudly declares its …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Graham Rogers catches up with Sir John Tomlinson and discusses his many performances in Wagner’s Ring Cycle, career longevity and his role as The Minotaur
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