49 stories by "Graham Rogers"
Wormsley Estate, High Wycombe: Composed by a one-time assistant to Richard Wagner and hailed as a masterpiece by Richard Strauss (who conducted its 1893 premiere), Engelbert Humperdinck'…
The Old Market, Hove: Reformed pirate Billy Bone is missing. He left Salty Sue, landlady of the The Blasted Bilge Rat, and their baby daughter Pegatty six months ago to go fishing but hasn&#…
Royal Opera House, London: Set amid the violent turbulence of revolutionary Rome in 1800, Jonathan Kent's 2006 production of Puccini's impassioned tragedy, enhanced by Paul Brown&#…
Royal Albert Hall, London: Raymond Gubbay gives Bizet's ever-popular operatic tale of fiery but doomed passion the stadium treatment in this Royal Albert Hall venture, first produced in…
Theatre Royal, Windsor: Founded in 1933 when Belarus was part of the Soviet Union (the country became an independent republic in 1990), the Grand Opera of Belarus still proudly declares its …
Graham Rogers catches up with Sir John Tomlinson and discusses his many performances in Wagner's Ring Cycle, career longevity and his role as The Minotaur
The Coliseum, London: Jonathan Miller's resolutely non-Japanese flapper-era production of The Mikado is now 25 years old, but feels as fresh and sparkling as ever - and the current Engl…
Charing Cross, London: Nearly three years after its humble beginnings in the Cock Tavern, Kilburn, low-budget company OperaUpClose's pared-down production of La Boheme has graduated - v…
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Boxing Day, 1900. A supply ship from Stromness arrives at a remote Outer Hebrides lighthouse to find it deserted - all three keepers vanished, but …
King's Head Theatre Pub, London: Three years after its Olivier award-winning production of La boheme, shoestring company OperaUpClose returns to Puccini for a make-over of Tosca. Director Ad…
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London: A Czech of Jewish descent born in 1898, Victor Ullmann was already an established composer when he was imprisoned in the Nazi 'show ca…
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Albert Herring was reportedly dismissed at its 1947 Glyndebourne premiere as "not our kind of thing" - possibly because the sharp observa…
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: At a time when directors' concepts rule at Bayreuth, Stefan Herheim's 2008 production of Parsifal has more substance and integrity than the four o…
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: New in 2011, Sebastian Baumgarten's Tannhauser is the third of the five 2012 Bayreuth Festival productions to superimpose the concept of its protagonis…
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Lohengrin is probably Wagner's most accessible music drama, at least in terms of its romantic-adventure plot of good - a gallant nameless knight and a …
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Despite its glorious acoustic, the oppressive atmosphere inside the Bayreuth Festpielhaus auditorium is not for the fainthearted. Everything about the uniqu…
Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Like the maverick egotist yet undeniable genius composer Richard Wagner himself, his Bayreuth Festival is no stranger to controversy. The big event for 2012…
Garsington Opera, Wormsley: There is no more appropriate opera for an Olympic year than Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade, set in ancient Olympia itself against the backdrop of the Games. Fort…
June 1-July 1: An ancient Greek tale of filial slaughter to appease the gods may not seem like suitable entertainment for genial summer opera - especially in the near-idyllic countryside set…
Glyndebourne Festival 2012: Peter Hall's 2005 production of La Cenerentola for Glyndebourne, now revived by Lynne Hockney, steers Rossini's naturalistic take on the Cinderella stor…
Hackney Empire, London: Cape Town-based Isango Ensemble returns to London for a three-week season at the Hackney Empire.
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English National Opera, London: The late Anthony Minghella's visually stunning Madam Butterfly, his only opera production, remains fresh in this fourth English National Opera revival. I…
Royal Opera House, London: Laurent Pelly's sparkling production of Donizetti's frothy but heartwarming comedy returns to the Royal Opera House for a second revival, cementing its r…
Hackney Empire, London: Rossini's effervescent masterpiece The Barber of Seville is usually an enjoyable experience - but this new English Touring Opera production, with David Parry…
