427 stories by "George Hall"
Over the years Opera Holland Park has made a speciality of the operas of Puccini and his contemporaries " a group often
Opera Holland Park rarely brings a production back, but this show from 2009 proves well worth reviving. Janacek's 1921 Katya Kabanova is
First seen in 2011, Mariame Clement's production of Donizetti's classic comedy about an elderly man who marries a young woman with disastrous
The rarely performed Lucio Silla was the last of the three operas Mozart composed for Milan as a teenager " he was
It's an unfortunate planning anomaly that two major festivals decided to stage Britten's comedy Albert Herring this summer, with the Grange Festival's
Buxton opens its 2017 festival with Verdi's first Shakespearean opera " a work he composed in 1847, early on in his career,
Andrei Serban's production of Puccini's Chinese fable Turandot has been a staple of the Royal Opera repertoire since 1984 and continues to
"This is the best of me", wrote Elgar at the end of his manuscript, quoting John Ruskin. "This, if anything of mine,
Grange Park Opera is nothing if not adventurous. Just three weeks after it moves into a newly built theatre at a new
Mozart composed Mitridate, King of Pontus when he was just 14 for the predecessor of La Scala, Milan. It's representative of the
When the world's most famous tenor takes on for the first time the mighty challenge of the title role of Verdi's Otello,
Katie Mitchell's production of Janacek's drama of Czech village life was launched by Welsh National Opera in 1998, when the company was
This season Garsington launches a collaboration with the Philharmonia Orchestra, which plays in the pit for the first time under Dutch conductor
In some respects Annabel Arden's treatment of Bizet's opera is radical. Almost all of the dialogue goes, to be replaced by an
As a theatre Snape Maltings is technically limited, so it was a brilliant idea on the part of the Aldeburgh Festival to
Back in 2010 Australian composer Brett Dean had an enormous success with his first opera Bliss, based on a novel by Peter
In little more than a year, Wasfi Kani has built a new opera house at a new venue in Surrey " a
A new event at a familiar address, the Grange Festival launches with Monteverdi's The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland " a
Last November Oliver Mears set Northern Ireland Opera's production of Mozart's dark-toned comedy, Don Giovanni " originally located in an unnamed Spanish
As the first of two casts takes to the stage for Donizetti's heart-warming comedy about a fake love potion, Daniel Dooner's revival
Sasha Regan's all-male Gilbert & Sullivan productions are becoming a theatrical institution in their own right. For their success they depend on
Each summer, a major, popular opera festival takes place just off Kensington High Street in a temporary theatre erected in Holland Park.
Back in the 1960s, Glyndebourne launched the revival of the 17th-century Venetian Francesco Cavalli, with stagings of his then obscure L'Ormindo and
Six weeks ago, Oliver Mears took over the post of director of opera at the Royal Opera House " the most important
Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in July 2016, Thomas Ades' third opera is based on the 1962 surrealist film by Spanish director
