427 stories by "George Hall"
Opera House, Wexford : Chabrier's 1887 comic opera has enjoyed a limited career inside his native France as elsewhere. Seeing Thaddeus Strassberger's busy production (shared with t…
Opera House, Wexford: Wexford opens its 61st festival - a regular haunt for those wishing to sample worthwhile operas that have fallen by the wayside - with The Girl from Arles by Francesco…
Jerwood Studio, Glyndebourne: Julian Philips' opera is based on a work by the Portuguese writer Eca de Queiros (1845-1900) that tells an anti-heroic tale about Godofredo, a retiring bus…
Grand, Leeds: Opera North's production of Gounod's classic is an unusual one from several points of view. Rather than just playing the standard edition of the score, it takes in se…
Leeds Grand Theatre: Not all productions of Mozart's opera remember that both the composer and his librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte, thought of their piece as a comedy, and it is a virtue o…
Coliseum, London: Proud of its achievements as the 'House of Handel', a commitment that began with groundbreaking stagings of Julius Caesar and Xerxes in the 1970s and 1980s but ha…
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Opera is celebrating the Wagner anniversary early - 2013 marks 200 years since his birth - with four cycles of Keith Warner's Ring production. When …
Coliseum, London: ENO's first new production of the season brings to the Coliseum Richard Jones' staging of Martinu's surrealistic dreamscape, already seen in Paris and Geneva…
Arcola, London: While the Arcola is being refurbished, Grimeborn offers its varied alternative opera festival in a comfortable tent not far from its regular headquarters. One of nine differe…
Argyle Warehouse, Birmingham: Birmingham Opera Company brings off a tremendous coup by staging the world premiere production of Mittwoch (or Wednesday) from Licht (Light), Stockhausen's…
Glyndebourne, East Sussex: Glyndebourne's final production of the season brings together Ravel's two short operas, which make a neat double bill. The title of the first, L'heu…
Iford Manor, Wiltshire: The Cloisters in the lovely gardens at Iford Manor have provided the intimate setting for Iford Festival's operatic productions since 1996. Though slimmed down c…
Glyndebourne, Lewes: Purcell's semi-opera returns to the Glyndebourne stage in a revival of Jonathan Kent's all-singing, all-dancing production, welcomed on its first arrival at th…
Holland Park, London: While Opera Holland Park is one of the most approachable companies in the UK, curiously it operates a more rigid language policy than almost any other outfit. Tchaikovs…
Royal Opera House, London: The end of season finds the Royal Opera on remarkable form in Verdi's Shakespearean masterpiece. From the moment Antonio Pappano launches the overwhelming sto…
Coliseum, London: Gershwin's American folk opera returns to the London stage as part of Cape Town Opera's UK tour. It's a major company challenge, brought off here with a comb…
Opera House, Buxton: Two rare one-act pieces make up this unusual Buxton double bill of works written around the turn of the 20th century - Sibelius's early The Maiden in the Tower in 1…
Opera House, Buxton: Stephen Barlow conducts Strauss's domestic comedy - based on a tragi-comic misunderstanding in his own marriage, which might have brought it to a premature end - as…
Opera House, Buxton: Handel's Biblical oratorios were not written for the stage - an 18th-century ban on the representation of biblical characters prevented their performance other than…
Glyndebourne, Sussex: Salzburg - Mozart's birthplace - or Vienna, where the opera was first performed, might disagree, but Glyndebourne knows that it owns The Marriage of Figaro. The fe…
Coliseum, London: Originating at the Manchester International Festival in 2011, Damon Albarn's second opera (following Monkey: Journey to the West) joins ENO's repertory as part of…
Royal Opera House, London: The biggest event of the Royal Opera's 2011-12 season, Berlioz's five-act epic The Trojans turns out to be a game of two halves in recently knighted Sir …
Linbury Studio, London: Operating as a receiving house, the Linbury hosts this production of a rare opera by Gluck, written for Bologna in 1763 and apparently never previously performed in t…
Holland Park, London: Holland Park's double bill brings together two of the favourite composers at this venue, former student flatmates and subsequently rivals Puccini and Mascagni.
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Coliseum, London: Following Michael Grandage's exceptional Glyndebourne staging of Britten's opera, ENO mounts its own version - very different but equally powerful. Whereas Granda…
