Britten theatre, London The Royal College of Music's European collaboration brings clean-edged chic and character to the French composer's opéra-ballet spectacleThe distinctively French for…
The current revival of Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's long-running traditional production of Madama Butterfly fields two geishas and two exponents of
This year, the London Handel Festival's annual opera is a great rarity: Faramondo, which had eight performances in 1738 and then disappeared
Originally seen in 2008, Christopher Alden's staging won the Olivier Award for Best New Opera Production the following year, and in its
In the week when Bryn Terfel receives his knighthood, the world's leading Wagnerian bass-baritone stars in Royal Opera Director of Opera Kasper
Thus far there have been at least a dozen attempts to set The Winter's Tale as an opera, though none of them
Back in 1962, Scottish Opera's inaugural season consisted of just two works: Madam Butterfly and Pelleas et Melisande. Debussy's symbolist opera returns
A new company debuts with not one opera but three. Snow is a composite work, with one librettist telling three stories all
The last of three works making up Opera North's fairytale season, Cinderella " or La Cenerentola, given that the company perform Rossini's
The Royal Opera celebrates the 25th anniversary of Angela Gheorghiu's international debut at the house in 1992 with a revival of Adriana
Opera North's fairytale season continues with the most popular of all operatic examples, Hansel and Gretel. Edward Dick's production sets the action
A collaboration between brothers Tom and Tobi Poster, The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak is a chamber opera " just two
Philip Glass, who turns 80 at the end of this month, is one of the most successful, as well as one of
Opera North's spring season comprises works from three different European fairytale traditions. Two " Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel and Rossini's Cinderella "
A comic-grotesque fantasy in which Nekrotzar " a figure representing Death, the “Grand Macabre” of the title " menaces the pleasure-loving population
George Benjamin's second opera, Written on Skin was premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2012 and made a strong impression when it
For many opera fans an orgy of nostalgia for a mythical old Vienna, Richard Strauss' romantic comedy returns to Covent Garden in
In 2011, Irish composer Gerald Barry secured a major hit with his setting of The Importance of Being Earnest, which started life
For the first time, the Royal Opera takes up residence at Wilton's for this show by young professionals from the Jette Parker
Operas about the horrors of war are always timely, even if variable in quality. Karl Amadeus Hartmann lived through the Nazi period
From every point of view a major undertaking for the company, Alban Berg's Lulu, his unfinished opera about the ultimate femme fatale,
The oldest production in the Royal Opera's repertory, John Schlesinger's staging of The Tales of Hoffmann has reached the ripe old age
To many people back in 1951, it must have seemed a crazy idea. With the encouragement of the writer Compton Mackenzie, a
Over the last few years, English National Opera has at times appeared to be falling apart in the most public way possible.
The Royal Opera offered the year's biggest " and noisiest " turkey, with a William Tell that made the headlines for all