427 stories by "George Hall"
Royal Opera House, London: The original plan was for the Royal Opera to share Luis Pasqual's production of Rossini's opera based on Sir Walter Scott's poem The Lady of the Lak…
Coliseum, London: English National Opera's new production of Berg's modernist masterpiece was originally due to be directed by Rupert Goold, whose previous staging at the London Co…
Grand, Leeds: Handel's 1748 oratorio is rarely performed, so Opera North's staging - imaginatively directed, designed and lit by Charles Edwards - is an all the more welcome additi…
Palladium, Cologne: During his lifetime - he died in 1933, aged 55 - the Austrian composer Franz Schreker rose to a position rivalling that of Richard Strauss in the German operatic world; b…
Barbican, London: English National Opera moves to the Barbican Theatre for this world premiere of a work by the multi-prize-winning Dutch composer Michel van der Aa, whose self-styled '…
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Designed by Tom Scutt, Harry Fehr's production of the first of Wagner's standard repertory operas presents it in the original Scottish setting the composer …
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: David Bruce's family opera is based on Philip Pullman's fairy tale novel via Glyn Maxwell's libretto. One of the co-commissioners of…
Churchill, Bromley: In theory, at least, the sheer scale of Verdi's opera should put it beyond <a href="http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/">English Touring Opera's&…
Royal Opera House, London: Premiered at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in July 2012, George Benjamin's first full-scale opera arrives at Covent Garden in the same production - staged by K…
Coliseum, LondonJonathan Miller's classic staging, first seen in 1987, is back for another run. This time, there's a soprano Rosina, instead of the lower mezzo the part was written for. What…
Coliseum, London: Adventurous programming continues at the Coliseum with the UK stage premiere of a neglected 1693 masterpiece by the comparatively little known French Baroque composer Marc-…
Grand Opera House, Belfast: Founded as recently as 2010, NI Opera is amply fulfilling its aims of producing high quality opera and developing young Northern Irish talent with this ambitious …
Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Massenet's romantic tragedy joins Scottish Opera repertoire in a new staging by up-and-coming director Pia Furtado. Designer Helen Goddard's costumes sugges…
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Opera's new Onegin marks the first production at Covent Garden by the company's recently appointed director of opera, Kasper Holten, whose arri…
Coliseum, London: An ongoing problem for the current ENO administration has been an ability to provide new productions of standard repertory pieces that are keepers - able to be revived year…
Grand Theatre, Leeds: John Fulljames' new production of Mozart's late opera The Clemency of Titus makes a strong case for a work still relatively sidelined among his mature output.…
Royal Opera House, London: First seen in 2008, Harrison Birtwistle's inescapably dark opera about the mythical half-man, half-beast that inhabits the legendary labyrinth on the Minoan i…
George Hall looks back on the year's opera highlights
Royal Opera House, London: John Copley's traditional 1974 staging of Puccini's Parisian romance is back for yet another revival whose main point of interest is the return of Roland…
Royal Opera House, London: It was back in 1890 that Covent Garden last staged Meyerbeer's grand opera - once a repertory mainstay that subsequently fell out of fashion with the rest of …
Coliseum, London: English National Opera has been without a production of the most popular of all titles since Sally Potter's incoherent staging flopped disastrously back in 2007. By br…
Royal Opera House, London: New in 2007, Laurent Pelly's staging of Donizetti's love potion comedy is revived for the second time. More roughly hewn and bordering on the vulgar this…
Coliseum, London: First performed at Covent Garden in 1951, Vaughan Williams' 'morality' is a full-scale operatic treatment of John Bunyan's Christian allegory, published…
Barbican, London: Oliver Knussen's 60th birthday is celebrated with a two-day focus on his work at the Barbican, beginning with this staging of his double bill based on books by Maurice…
Opera House, Wexford: This year's Delius anniversary - he was born in Bradford in 1862 - has been widely celebrated in the UK, although his operas have largely been left out of the pict…
