427 stories by "George Hall"
Written in 1958, Britten's opera brings together professionals and amateurs, adults and children to tell the tale of Noah's Flood " to
David McVicar's 2006 production comes up vividly in this imaginative revival overseen by Thomas Guthrie. This is a Marriage of Figaro moved
The London Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season with this semi-staging of Janacek's opera about the relationship between humans and the animal
Director Adele Thomas' grandfather was a film projectionist in the 1930s, she tells us, and her formative years were spent watching the
Immediately the ENO and Regent's Park co-production of Humperdinck's fairytale opera closes, Grange Park opens its own version. There are a number
When Handel wanted to produce his oratorio Esther in London in 1732, the Bishop of London responded with a ban on staged
Richard Jones' production of Musorgsky's psychologically probing study of the individual at the centre of a troubled epoch in Russian history plays
In Operaland, Hansel and Gretel is not just for Christmas " hence this midsummer co-production by English National Opera at Regent's Park,
Thus far, the 2019 country-house season has been partially stymied by the weather, which remains doggedly uncongenial for pastoral picnics or parkland
It's refreshing to encounter a Marriage of Figaro set in period and " even more precisely " in Seville. Designer Tim Reed
Massenet's fairytale opera entered Glyndebourne via the company's 2018 tour. Fiona Shaw's production didn't quite work on that occasion, and is now
Czech composer Janacek began The Diary of One Who Disappeared in August 1917, shortly after his fateful meeting with Kamila Stosslova, a
Former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has collaborated with Garsington's artistic director, conductor Douglas Boyd (no relation) before, though this
The opening production of Garsington Opera's 30th-anniversary season finds the festival at the top of its game. The Philharmonia " one of
A mystery illness almost put paid to her promising operatic career before it had started. Now, as the British soprano takes on
Forget Wagner's Ring: the largest of operatic cycles is Stockhausen's Licht (Light), its seven parts each named after a day of the
If you believe you have a voice strong enough to be heard at the back of a concert hall while delivering a
Umberto Giordano's French Revolution drama focuses on a poet whose views prove unwelcome to both sides. Moreover, the allegiance of his rival
Glyndebourne launches the festival season with a problematic work. Berlioz wrote The Damnation of Faust as a cantata for the concert hall,
Premiered in Berlin in 2007, Hans Werner Henze's penultimate opera takes a classical legend and toys creatively with it. Christian Lehnert's libretto
This first collaboration between English National Opera and the Unicorn Theatre takes the form of a small-scale show designed for an audience
Opera, of course, this isn't " though Richard Ayres has already composed two of them: The Cricket Recovers, a success at its
Charles Court Opera returns to the King's Head with its small but perfectly formed staging of one of the finest Gilbert and
The news that Daniel Kramer is to leave English National Opera, the company he has led for the past three years, is
Celebrated mezzo Rosalind Plowright shows no sign of slowing down as she prepares to mark her 70th birthday with back-to-back roles. She
