427 stories by "George Hall"
The director known for her interpretations of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Henrik Ibsen and Benjamin Britten has seamlessly bridged the worlds of theatre
In 13 years, New Zealander Alex Reedijk has pulled Scottish Opera back from the brink, turning it into a thriving company that
Due to sing Marguerite in this revival of David McVicar's 2004 production, star German soprano Diana Damrau pulled out a week ago
The notorious serial-killer nicknamed Jack the Ripper continues to fascinate, with countless books, films, documentaries, tours and websites catering to a seemingly
One of Royal Opera director Oliver Mears' initiatives is to bring back to Covent Garden the numerous works Handel premiered there. The
Rumour on the operatic street has it that tickets for Christof Loy's new production of La Forza del Destino are reselling for as
Scottish Opera's fine production of Katya Kabanova " directed by Stephen Lawless, vividly conducted by Stuart Stratford, and performed in the original
One of two major works that he is directing as part of English Touring Opera's spring tour, James Conway's Idomeneo is a
Rossini's 1815 opera marked his debut in Naples, where he was to remain for eight years, turning the San Carlo Theatre into
Every couple of years Glyndebourne stages a new work involving its youth wing and other non-professionals, who combine with professional principals, band
Operetta is the trickiest of all genres: its performers have to be able to sing with operatic skill, put over reams of
Founded three years ago, the Opera Story has produced two new works, both of them genuine successes: Snow (2017) collated three shorter
In its rebuilt form, Wilton's Music Hall dates from exactly the same period as the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera, whose premiere
English National Opera's collaboration with Improbable and its director Phelim McDermott on Philip Glass' 1984 opera returns for its first revival. It
Introduced to the UK opera scene by Lesley Garrett, conductor Carlo Rizzi had two stints as musical director at Welsh National Opera
Three UK companies are staging Janacek's tragedy of Russian provincial life almost simultaneously. Opera North's revival of Tim Albery's 2007 production opened
First seen in 2007, Tim Albery's production of Janacek's small-Russian-town tragedy returns for a revival. Hildegard Bechtler's costumes indicate the staging's repositioning
Mozart's opera contains so many elements " fairytale, quest story, spiritual journey, low comedy and high-minded defence of Freemasonry " that any
After growing up in communist Albania and training in Italy, the soprano made her Covent Garden debut as a 'jump-in', replacing an
Norwegian director Stefan Herheim's international career reached its apogee with a production of Parsifal at Bayreuth (2008) that achieved a number of
This year welcomed a new 400-seat opera house at Nevill Holt, where the resident company staged successful productions of Figaro and Antony
When we meet, Antony McDonald has been working all day on his new production of Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, which opened this
Part of Antony McDonald's brief from director of the Royal Opera Oliver Mears in creating his new, self-designed staging has been to
In recent decades there's been a revival of interest in Charles Stanford " a leading light of the English musical Renaissance who
In 1962 the new Coventry Cathedral was consecrated, just yards away from the ruins of its medieval predecessor, which was destroyed in
