67 stories by "Edward Bhesania"
Hackney Empire, London: It is a reflection of English Touring Opera's enterprising outlook that the last of its three spring tour operas, Donizetti's The Siege of Calais, is receiv…
Glyndebourne Theatre, Lewes: Ambitious, imaginative and well executed, Imago is Glyndebourne's latest community opera.
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Hackney Empire, London: With its light-hearted scenario touching on suspicion, infidelity and jealousy, Cosi fan Tutte is one of the most natural contenders for updating, but director Paul H…
Coliseum, London: Twenty-five years since its first appearance and marking the director's 35-year presence with ENO (if only, latterly, through revivals), Jonathan Miller's Barber …
King's Head Theatre, Islington: Although still of kindergarten age, OperaUpClose has created 11 new productions. Its latest is Donizetti's bel canto comedy L'elisir d'amore (T…
Coliseum, London: With a revival of Rufus Norris's 2006 Cabaret playing at the Savoy - another tale of decadence and moral decline - you'd expect his Don Giovanni for ENO, receivin…
Glyndebourne Theatre: There can be few operatic heroines who know suffering as well as Dvorak's water nymph Rusalka, whose desire to acquire human form in order to win the love of a mor…
John McIntosh Arts Centre, The London Oratory School: Co-Opera Co brings together a rich crop of experienced singers and directors who pass on their experience to young professionals. This D…
Riverside Studios, London: Now in its sixth year, Tete a Tete's opera fringe festival brings a typically diverse array of boundary-dissolving new pieces ranging from the novel to the ex…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Having installed a wind turbine to generate its own renewable energy, Glyndebourne Festival Opera is also recycling David McVicar's La boheme - at 12 years old, the…
Wormsley Estate, Buckinghamshire: Launching Garsington Opera's second season at its new home - the airy, Japanese-inspired pavilion set in the Getty family's 2,500-acre Chilterns e…
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: ROH2's OperaShots showcases first operas from composers often working on the fringes of classical music.
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Heaven, London: Mozart's Don Giovanni has traditionally proved fertile ground for updating - what could be more contemporary than a promiscuous philanderer with a conscience bypass?
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Royal Opera House, London: The orgy that launches David McVicar's production of Rigoletto, new in 2001, may have lost some of its hedonistic edge but it at least raises more of an eyebr…
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith: Tete a Tete's willingness to experiment means you can't always rely on the quality of their work, but you can pretty well guarantee an operatic curv…
Royal Albert Hall, London: It's easy to be wary of Raymond Gubbay's 'in the round' operas at the Royal Albert Hall. The singers are miked (as is the orchestra), each show…
Old Vic Tunnels, London: Here's a Boheme with a difference. Others have updated to the present, offered contemporary translations, even shifted the audience to the bar to lend an authen…
