427 stories by "George Hall"
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park introduces a new repertoire strand with its first ever staging of a work by Benjamin Britten, placed in the hands of a talented director; unfortunate…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Mozart's 1775 work is new to Glyndebourne Festival Opera, which has waited until its 80th anniversary season before presenting it. The composer wrote it when he was…
Royal Opera House, London: Christof Loy returns to direct his production, which reopened the Royal Opera House following its major refit in 2002. A brilliant piece of music theatre when firs…
Garsington at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire: New to Garsington's repertory is Janacek's moving opera drawing parallels between the lives of humans and those of forest animals, as well …
Royal Opera House, London: Two of today's leading opera stars take to the stage in Jonathan Kent's new production of Puccini's romantic tragedy. No complaints about them. Perf…
Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh: Founded by Benjamin Britten back in 1947, the Aldeburgh Festival has no true opera house in which to stage the works of the UK's greatest opera composer, but …
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: A double bill of one-act operas setting Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious tale The Fall of the House of Usher brings WNO's season to an end. The first …
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: A signature piece for the company, Verdi's early, Biblical opera returns to Welsh National Opera in a staging by Austrian Rudolf Frey, whose Maria Stua…
Garsington at Wormsley, Buckinghamshire: Garsington's artistic director, conductor Douglas Boyd, takes charge of the first show of the season - Beethoven's only opera, in a product…
Coliseum, London: Berlioz's first opera fell flat at its premiere in 1838, and has continued to do so at most of its infrequent revivals ever since; yet following his broad success with…
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park's summer season gets off to a flying start with Stephen Barlow's new production of Puccini's opera based on David Belasco's once …
Grange Park, Northington: One of the most ambitious of the UK's opera festivals, Grange Park's new Britten staging by all round man of the theatre Jeremy Sams shows the company ope…
Royal Opera House, London: First seen in Amsterdam in 1997, Robert Carsen's gripping production has been widely restaged - in Madrid, Vienna and Toronto, as well as at La Scala, Milan. …
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: In what has already been an ambitious season, WNO's biggest challenge is this rare production of Schoenberg's unfinished masterpiece - last given …
Coliseum, London: When English National Opera's production of Mozart's comedy was originally scheduled, the director was announced as Katie Mitchell. For reasons unknown, she subse…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne launches the summer festival season with a new production by Richard Jones of Strauss's popular comedy, with conductor Robin Ticciati undertaking his f…
Royal Opera House, London: The first of two casts takes to the stage in the latest revival of Jonathan Kent's 2006 production, rehearsed by Andrew Sinclair. Like the recent Traviata, fr…
Coliseum, London: It has been far too long since English National Opera last presented the premiere of a major new opera by a British composer, but in Julian Anderson's Thebans the comp…
Linbury Studio, LondonThe musical-dramatic pacing is swift and almost cinematic an aspect reinforced by the use of screens with multiple CCTV images placed at the back of the stageWhile Gou…
Ambika P3, London: When it was first performed back in 1995, Thomas Ades's first opera, to a scabrous libretto by Philip Hensher, made the composer's reputation while becoming noto…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London: Having opened just two months ago, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse hosts its first opera in the shape of Cavalli's rarely performed L'Ormindo. Dating f…
Linbury Studio, London: A joint venture by the Royal Opera, Aldeburgh Music and Opera North brings forth two new chamber operas, with the same pattern to be repeated over the next couple of …
Royal Opera House, London: Richard Strauss was born 150 years ago, and the Royal Opera's major contribution to the celebrations is this new production of his most ambitious opera, which…
Hackney Empire, London: Joining operas by Britten and Tippett on ETO's national tour is Mozart's philosophical comedy, due to play some 17 venues from Truro to Perth between now an…
Britten Theatre, London: A regular highlight of the London Handel Festival - now in its 37th edition - is its annual operatic presentation at the Britten Theatre, an ideal venue for such ent…
