427 stories by "George Hall"
It's usual for a company to leave some space between one production of a classic work and another, but Joe Hill-Gibbins' new
The annual production by members of the Royal Opera's Jette Parker Young Artists Programme gives the scheme's current intake a chance to
English Touring Opera launches its spring tour with the complex Mozart/Da Ponte comedy whose title translates as All Women Behave Like That
This year marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth. For opera companies the anniversary choice is simple, since he completed only one opera,
The first so-called 'CNN opera' was premiered in 1987, when the events it portrayed " US President Richard Nixon's unanticipated and historic
Opera is a fairly recent art form: the first work generally accounted as an opera dates from 1597 and is largely lost,
Composer Gerald Barry tells George Hall about discovering music as a child, cutting up Oscar Wilde for The Important of Being Earnest
Premiered on Broadway in 1947, Kurt Weill's 'American opera' drew on a Pulitzer-winning play that sought to depict realistically the interconnected lives
Puccini's classic tale of bohemian love, poverty, life and death in 19th-century Paris returns for another revival. Before Richard Jones' production (here
This first collaboration between the Royal Opera and the disabled and non-disabled artists of Candoco is based on Shaun Tan's picture book
Originally launched by star tenor Jonas Kaufmann, Keith Warner's 2017 production returns, this time with 65-year-old American Gregory Kunde in the title
English National Opera has enjoyed significant success with two major Glass pieces: Satyagraha and Akhnaten, which, together with Einstein on the Beach,
New Sussex Opera joins forces with operetta specialists Opera della Luna for its latest production, which benefits from Jeff Clarke's mastery of
Mark Padmore's latest role was written for Benjamin Britten's lifelong partner Peter Pears. The tenor tells George Hall how at 58 he
The Royal Opera has taken to calling Mozart's work The Magic Flute on its website, rather than retaining the German title Die
Just one UK performance for this staging of Oliver Knussen's family opera " arguably the finest of all such pieces " following
Irish composer Andrew Synnott's La Cucina (The Kitchen) makes its world premiere on Wexford's main stage, with a libretto by the event's
Premiered at English National Opera back in 1986, The Mask of Orpheus belatedly returns in a staging by Daniel Kramer " the
Rising star director Rodula Gaitanou joins with designer Takis and conductor Timothy Myers to give Wexford a successful season launch with this
At a festival that celebrates the rare, Baroque opera is itself a rarity. The works of Antonio Vivaldi " best known for
Since its first showing in 2007, Annabel Arden's staging of Donizetti's heart-warming romcom L'Elisir d'Amore (The Love Potion) has become a welcome
Rigoletto belatedly enters the Glyndebourne repertory via Christiane Lutz's staging, a radical rewrite of Verdi's revenge tragedy based on a play by
You sometimes hear people describe Don Pasquale as a 'cruel' comedy " though they're often a bit vague as to what they
Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-72) is one of those composers much admired inside his homeland " in this case, Poland " where he is
English Touring Opera's autumn tour celebrates the German form of Singspiel " opera with spoken dialogue " with works by Mozart and
