Garsington Opera at Wormsley, StokenchurchThis production of Shakespeare's play, complete with a live backing of Mendelssohn's score, is as brilliant as it is rare In the 19th century, well-…
As many readers will know, there was an unprecedented incident of booing at the Royal Opera House the other night, during the
Ultimately, and disappointingly, it’s an evening that rarely rises above the cheap-laugh potential of its subject.
London Coliseum: English National Opera is going through a troubled period, though that's nothing new, as anyone who has followed the company's fortunes over the decades will know.…
Royal Opera House, London: Tim Albery's 2009 staging of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman returns for its second revival. The opera is played in the continuous version Wagner conceived …
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Mozart's popular comedy takes to the Opera North stage in a new production by Jo Davies, who has already given the company major hits with Ruddigore and Carousel. …
Leeds Grand Theatre: Every opera company hopes to gain for its repertoire a successful Traviata - a valuable asset, as the piece seems to be endlessly popular with audiences, including newco…
Royal Opera House, London: Jonas Kaufmann, the world's most widely admired operatic tenor, returns to the Covent Garden stage in what is the Royal Opera's first production of Giord…
Roundhouse, London: This production marked some important firsts - the first collaboration between the Royal Opera and the Roundhouse, the first opera staging by Michael Boyd, and the Royal …
From Terry Gilliam's masterpiece Benvenuto Cellini to Glyndebourne's intriguing Der Rosenkavalier, there were plenty of worthwhile operas this year, writes George Hall The Royal Opera offere…
Royal Opera House, London: German director Katharina Thoma's first UK production was Ariadne auf Naxos for Glyndebourne, which received a mixed reception. Her second, and her first work…
London Coliseum: To a libretto by Peter Sellars based on the Old Testament, the New Testament, the medieval abbess Hildegard of Bingen and the writings of half a dozen politically active and…
Royal Opera House, London: Austrian director Martin Kusej, a leading member of the German Regietheater movement, makes his Royal Opera debut with Mozart's early masterpiece, set after t…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Stirringly entitled 'Liberty or Death!', Welsh National Opera's autumn season makes a feature of two relatively unfamiliar works by Rossini -…
Coliseum, London: In 1904 Puccini turned a play by David Belasco - Madam Butterfly - into one of his most successful operas, and it was doubtless with the hope of repeating the trick that he…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Productions of Rossini's last and most ambitious opera are a bit like buses - you wait 20 years and then two come along at once: the Royal Opera presen…
Soho Theatre, London: OperaUpClose's slimmed-down staging of Verdi's opera manages to make do with just five singers (no separate chorus) and a three-piece band - on the first nigh…
Holland Park, London: Holland Park returns to its verismo period specialism with this 1902 romantic tragedy by Cilea, presented here in a new staging by Martin Lloyd-Evans. It seems obligato…
Coade, Bryanston: In its 40th anniversary year, Dorset Festival Opera demonstrates impressive standards in this full-scale production of one of Verdi's grandest works. Aida is one of tw…
Linbury Studio, London: Created by Frederic Wake-Walker, who directs its initial production, Mahogany Opera Group was formed earlier this year when Wake-Walker combined The Opera Group (form…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: The third new production of Glyndebourne's 2014 season is Verdi's popular classic, and Tom Cairns' staging, designed by Hildegard Bechtler, brings the act…
Coliseum, London: Though it is officially a theatre for young audiences in the Russian capital, there is nothing about the Moscow State Music Theatre's production of Rimsky-Korsakov…
Royal Opera House, London: Forty years after its first night, John Copley's production of Puccini's tragic Parisian romance returns yet again for another revival exemplifying tradi…
Iford Manor, Wiltshire: Director Jeff Clarke's bespoke staging for the Iford Festival of Donizetti's classic comedy moves it from the original 19th century Tyrolean military settin…
Grange Park, Alresford, nr Winchester: It is rare for Grange Park Opera to mount a revival, but this restaging of Antony McDonald's self-designed 2012 production of Tchaikovsky's o…