La Perichole, Garsington, Wormsley by George Hall

Garsington, Wormsley: Garsington Opera takes off in a new repertoire direction with this production by multi-talented man-of-the-theatre Jeremy Sams of Offenbach's 1868 opera bouffe. Sa…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:44am on June 19, 2012☆⚑

The Queen of Spades, Grange Park, Hampshire by George Hall

Grange Park, Hampshire: Grange Park often succeeds best when at its boldest, and this new production of Tchaikovsky's psychological roller coaster of a melodrama shows the company near …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:33am on June 14, 2012☆⚑

Babur in London, Haymarket, Basingstoke by George Hall

Haymarket, Basingstoke: Starting out on its UK tour from Basingstoke, Edward Rushton's new opera - libretto by the Indian writer Jeet Thayil - was premiered in Zurich back in March in t…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:09am on June 13, 2012☆⚑

Lucia di Lammermoor, Holland Park, London by George Hall

Holland Park, London: Informal and affordable Opera Holland Park opens its festive summer event with Olivia Fuchs's new production of Donizetti's double tragedy. It's among he…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:43am on June 8, 2012☆⚑

Salome, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: David McVicar's production of Strauss's Oscar Wildean shocker returns for its second Covent Garden revival, this time under the care of Barbara Lluch. It…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:21am on June 6, 2012☆⚑

Madama Butterfly, Grange Park, Hampshire by George Hall

Grange Park, Hampshire: Grange Park Opera's season opener is Puccini's Japanese tragedy in a production previously seen at the company's northern offshoot at Nevill Holt. Mark…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:31am on June 1, 2012☆⚑

Caligula, Coliseum, London by George Hall

Coliseum, London: English National Opera's ambitious season continues with this UK premiere production of a major work by the contemporary German composer Detlev Glanert in a new stagin…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:15am on May 28, 2012☆⚑

Sum, Linbury Studio, London by George Hall

Linbury Studio, London: That infinitely adaptable space the Linbury is reconfigured anew to present this new work, incorporating singing, speech, instrumental accompaniment, video and lighti…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:16am on May 25, 2012☆⚑

The Cunning Little Vixen, Glyndebourne, Sussex by George Hall

Glyndebourne, Sussex: Glyndebourne opens the summer opera festival season with a new production of Leos Janacek's piece about the cycle of life, exploring parallels between the existenc…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:53am on May 21, 2012☆⚑

Bow Down, The Old Municipal Market, Brighton by George Hall

The Old Municipal Market, Brighton: To the sparest of designs by Anna Jones, The Opera Group's recently appointed artistic director, Frederic Wake-Walker, stages his initial production …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:16am on May 18, 2012☆⚑

Falstaff, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: Robert Carsen's new staging of Verdi's farewell comedy is a co-production with La Scala and the Canadian Opera Company. The setting is the 1950s, with Fa…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:11am on May 16, 2012☆⚑

Einstein on the Beach, Barbican, London by George Hall

Barbican, London: Philip Glass' 1976 opera belatedly reaches the UK in this recreation by librettist, set designer and director Robert Wilson, and choreographer Lucinda Childs, of their…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:09am on May 8, 2012☆⚑

Carousel " review by George Hall

Grand, LeedsOf all the UK's opera companies, Opera North is the one that most regularly crosses the border into musicals, usually reviving something obscure but worthwhile by the likes …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:16am on May 7, 2012☆⚑

La Boheme, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: What looks on paper like a standard (if luxuriously cast) Puccini revival marks the 25th series of performances of John Copley's 1974 production on the Covent…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:36am on May 1, 2012☆⚑

The Flying Dutchman, Coliseum, London by George Hall

Coliseum, London: Jonathan Kent and ENO music director Edward Gardner make their Wagnerian debuts with this staging of the composer's earliest masterpiece. Each achieves something vital…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:26am on April 30, 2012☆⚑

Jakob Lenz, Hampstead, London by George Hall

Hampstead, London: English National Opera's first co-production with the Hampstead Theatre offers a chamber opera that has been widely performed since its premiere in Hamburg in 1979. I…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 7:05am on April 18, 2012☆⚑

The Rake's Progress, Theatre Royal, Glasgow by George Hall

Theatre Royal, Glasgow: Glasgow-born David McVicar returns to Glasgow-based Scottish Opera for this new production of Stravinsky's opera based on Hogarth's sequence of satirical pa…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:59am on March 19, 2012☆⚑

Miss Fortune, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: Punning titles aside, Judith Weir's latest opera, premiered at the Bregenz Festival in Austria last year, creates a mixed impression on its arrival on the com…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:43am on March 13, 2012☆⚑

Eugene Onegin, Hackney Empire, London by George Hall

Hackney Empire, London: James Conway's 2007 production of Tchaikovsky's popular work is revived as one of the two main-stage operas on English Touring Opera's 2012 spring tour…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:07am on March 12, 2012☆⚑

Rusalka, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: The only one of Dvorak's operas to hold a place in the international repertoire is his "lyric fairytale" of 1901. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:56am on February 28, 2012☆⚑

The Death of Klinghoffer, Coliseum, London by George Hall

Coliseum, London: It has taken 21 years for the most controversial opera of our time to reach the London stage, but courtesy of English National Opera's enterprising artistic director, …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 4:51am on February 27, 2012☆⚑

Don Giovanni, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: Erwin Schrott stars in this second series of performances of Mozart's opera about the libertine punished - and stars is definitely the word. He has the good l…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:09am on February 17, 2012☆⚑

The Tales of Hoffmann, Coliseum, London by George Hall

Coliseum, London: Offenbach's swansong brings together three of the fantastical tales of ETA Hoffmann in a bitterly romantic bio-opera, at the end of which the writer decides to dedicat…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 6:02am on February 13, 2012☆⚑

Le nozze di Figaro, Royal Opera House, London by George Hall

Royal Opera House, London: The detail of life above and below stairs remains keenly felt in this latest revival of David McVicar's production. Servants eavesdrop and spy on the potentia…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:33am on February 13, 2012☆⚑

Thelma, Ashcroft, Croydon by George Hall

Ashcroft, Croydon: In the year marking the centenary of his death, Croydon - where Samuel Coleridge-Taylor lived for nearly the whole of his life - is commemorating him in style with a subst…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 5:29am on February 10, 2012☆⚑