427 stories by "George Hall"
The second instalment of English National Opera's Orpheus season is an operetta, and one of the most famous of all: Offenbach's Orpheus
English National Opera opens its Orpheus-themed season with the first of four operas on the myth: Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice, a work
Gerald Barry's first opera premiered in 1990 with a libretto by Vincent Deane, though not much has been heard of it since.
The Royal Opera is working its way through the operas and oratorios Handel composed for the first Theatre Royal, Covent Garden "
Carmen is one of the most iconic operas, with the popularity of individual musical numbers giving everyone some idea of its subject
Now in his mid-40s, Peruvian star tenor Juan Diego Flórez has enjoyed a brilliant career specialising in bel canto roles and especially
Kasper Holten's legacy to the Royal Opera includes this 2014 production of Mozart's dark comedy, which had a pretty mixed reception first
For more than 40 years, Opera North has striven for artistic excellence while reaching out to new audiences. As the company prepares
Operatically speaking, David Blake is best known for two substantial works premiered by English National Opera: Toussaint in 1976 and The Plumber's
Originally the name of a Spanish colonial council, the word 'cabildo' also denotes the buildings in which such institutions carried out their
Over its 25 years of existence Opera della Luna has given nearly 500 performances of the indestructible Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera,
Of Scott Joplin's two operas, one is entirely lost and the other, Treemonisha, exists only in vocal score. Despite the composer having
Lars von Trier's 1996 film Breaking the Waves remains a controversial work. The narrative, and in particular its treatment of the central
Opera in the City Festival opens its third season with what must be a UK premiere, and a great rarity anywhere: a
We no longer view the events of the First Crusade (1095-99) in the way Handel and his audiences did. Set during that
Mozart and his librettist Schikaneder's 1791 opera is a defence of their shared involvement with freemasonry. Its unique blend of the fantastical,
In Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, the unhappily married heroine is inspired by a performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor to reflect on
The printed synopsis of Verdi's Nabucco as staged by Peter Relton for Dorset Opera is unusually imprecise in terms of both period
The last of Opera Holland Park's stagings this summer is this double bill of unusual titles: Wolf-Ferrari's clever little comedy of marital
Jeff Clarke set up Opera della Luna in 1994 to stage the neglected repertoire of comic operas and operettas. He tells George
An Enlightenment tract, Mozart's The Magic Flute is equally a reminder of the limitations of that movement in terms of its views
First seen in 2007 and here revived for the fourth time, Laurent Pelly's amiable production of Donizetti's light comedy The Daughter of
Even at a time when Baroque operas are being endlessly revived, the 40 surviving examples by Antonio Caldara haven't had much of
The Italian word pasticcio can mean a number of things, but to 18th-century audiences it meant a sort of musical pudding made
Buxton's new regime launches with a visually intriguing and musically impassioned account of Tchaikovsky's opera, set in mid-19th-century Russia and sung in
