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A Memorable and Musically Superb Pelléas et Mélisande from Longborough Festival Opera – Opera Today
Bare light bulbs, dazzling lighting rigs and handheld torches dominate Jenny Ogilvie’s new staging of Pelléas et Mélisande at Longborough Festival Opera. The production fulfils a long-held dream by the festival founder Martin Graham whose
Saint Louis Strauss Drives Audiences Batty – Opera Today
Unrelenting, raucous animation was the salient characteristic that pervaded Opera Theatre of Saint Louis’ lively version of that evergreen favorite, Die Fledermaus (The Bat), and the capacity audience roared in approval. Prima la musica: It is
Monteverdi Choir and Masaaki Suzuki at St Martin-in-the-Fields – Opera Today
Making his debut with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Masaaki Suzuki directed an all-Bach concert celebrating the 300th anniversary of five works (four cantatas and a Sinfonia) written in 1725 when the composer was
Gothic horror meets Siegmund Freud in Saint-Saëns’s The Silver Bell at Winchester’s Theatre Royal – Opera Today
Of Camille Saint-Saëns’s thirteen operas, only Samson and Dalila remains a regular part of the repertory. So, the enterprising New Sussex Opera must be congratulated on presenting the UK premiere of the composer’s first opera,
A richly imagined and musically compelling Simon Boccanegra from Grange Park Opera – Opera Today
The Viennese critic Edward Hanslick once compared Brahms’ Fourth Symphony to “a dark well”, and declared “the longer we look into it, the more brightly the stars shine back”. Such an observation might be levelled
Memorable singing and vivid orchestral playing enliven Grange Festival’s Traviata – Opera Today
Grange Festival’s new production of Verdi’s tragedy brings magnificent singing and much superb playing from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra under Richard Farnes who makes his house debut. Director Maxine Braham, also a first timer at
Emphatic singing characterises much of Garsington’s darkly imagined Queen of Spades – Opera Today
When Tchaikovsky’s card-game opera first appeared at London’s Drury Lane Theatre in 1915, it was announced by The Times as ‘a romance’. That’s marketing for you and pushing things a bit far, even with Pushkin’s
Harvey Milk Reimagined at San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle – Opera Today
Recalling a very dark moment in San Francisco’s history, Michael Korie and Stewart Wallace’s Harvey Milk Reimagined [for small operatic forces], arrived, via St. Louis, finally in San Francisco. This 1978 massacre remains, still, an open
Chelsea Opera Group make a creditable addition to their repertoire of neglected operas in Bellini’s La straniera – Opera Today
Having presented Lalo’s Le roi d’Ys, based on a Breton legend, back in March, Chelsea Opera Group now gave another opera set in Britanny, Bellini’s La straniera (1829). It’s another story (set in the Middle
A provocative musical and dramatic satire upon the legacy of Wagner opens Longborough’s 2025 season – Opera Today
The matter of Wagner's antisemitism – or, more to the point, whether it permeates his work, and its influence upon subsequent German cultural and social history – is a debate likely to last as long as his
An impressive season-opener from Opera Holland Park’s Flying Dutchman – Opera Today
It seems entirely appropriate that Holland Park Opera’s first venture into Richard Wagner should be Der fliegende Holländer. And where better in London to experience its storm-tossed drama within an open-sided auditorium where you felt
What comes after the very end? Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde offers some answers – Opera Today
Some composers, like Dvořák for instance, seemed at home in whichever genre they chose to write. Mahler, by contrast, though he repeatedly wrote for the human voice, never attempted an opera. As chief conductor at