427 stories by "George Hall"
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Skilfully revived by James Bonas, Laurent Pelly's 2008 production of Humperdinck's opera launches Glyndebourne's autumn tour. Visually it remains a distin…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: With two out of the three works already in the repertoire, Welsh National Opera opens the third instalment of its Tudor trilogy. Alessandro Talevi directs -…
Coliseum, London: ENO's new Fledermaus is anything but a traditional version of the show. In Allen Moyer's set and Constance Hoffman's often spectacular metrosexual costumes, …
Kings Head, London: Flourish is the name of a competition inaugurated last year for new works designed for OperaUpClose to perform at the Kings Head Theatre. The first prize-winners are libr…
Coliseum, London: ENO opens its season with a new staging of Beethoven's only opera directed by the Catalan Calixto Bieito, whose previous work with the company has proved distinctly mi…
Royal Opera House, London: Strauss's concentrated retelling of the dark story of Agamemnon's daughter Elektra, and her burning desire for revenge on her mother Klytemnestra -- who …
Royal Opera House, London: On the day his Critics' Circle Award as Outstanding Musician 2013 is announced, Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to Covent Garden to conduct The Marriage of Fi…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The second of Welsh National Opera's Tudor Trilogy of Donizetti historical operas takes to the stage in the shape of Maria Stuarda - his 1835 take on t…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: Welsh National Opera opens its autumn season with a themed project bringing together three of Donizetti's operas about the Tudor monarchs, whose emotio…
English National Opera stalwart with a vast repertoire who performed in Jonathan Miller's Mikado more than 150 timesRichard Angas, who has died aged 71, was a leading operatic bass whose lo…
The Yucca Lawn, Holland Park, London: After three seasons of Tobias Picker's Fantastic Mr Fox, Opera Holland Park rings the changes for its family opera this year, simultaneously commis…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Premiered by Glyndebourne on tour in 2011, Mariame Clement's alluring staging of Donizetti's comedy arrives at the festival proper. The French director's …
Iford Manor, Bradford-on-Avon: Lunacy reigns at Iford Manor, where this tiny but choice venue for summer opera resounds to the merry strains of Offenbach's wickedly worldly opera bouffe…
Linbury Studio, London: Written at various times between 1947 and 1974, Britten's canticles set poetic texts that meant much to the composer and were designed for performers he was pers…
Royal Opera House, London: One of the most visually glamorous productions in the Royal Opera's repertory, La Rondine is back for another revival. Designed by Ezio Frigerio and Franca Sq…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne's second new production of the 2013 season represents something of a departure; after winning success with Handel and Purcell, the summer festival turn…
Royal Opera House, London: Elijah Moshinsky returns to direct his 1991 production of Verdi's most sombre opera. The staging looks its age, and some previous revivals have achieved a hig…
Royal Opera House, London: Sixty years after its premiere during the week of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, the Royal Opera revives Britten's work about Queen Elizabeth I and her…
Coliseum, London: Following successful transfers to Brussels and to La Scala, Milan, Deborah Warner's staging of Britten's last opera returns to the Coliseum for a second run. This…
Aldeburgh Beach: Celebrations of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth are taking place in 39 countries, such is the widespread appeal of one of our greatest composers. Few will hav…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Michael Grandage's production - a major success when it opened last summer - makes it first return to the festival in the care of revival director Ian Rutherford. I…
Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff: The British composer Jonathan Harvey - internationally admired for his complex and colourful music, which combined a broad and non-dogmatic modernist aesthe…
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park opens its summer season with a double bill of the two works opera fans usually call just 'Cav & Pag'. Mascagni's Cavalleria began …
Coliseum, London: Jointly commissioned by ENO and the Teatro Real in Madrid, Philip Glass' 24th opera arrives in the UK following its premiere in Spain in January. ENO has a solid track…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Glyndebourne opens the summer festival season with a new production of the elegant Strauss/Hofmannsthal conceit in which preparations for a new opera seria by a young co…
