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The New National Theatre Tokyo opens its season with Bellini’s La Sonnambula – Opera Today
The NNTT’s 2024/2025 season opened with Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece, La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker), seen on October 12. A co-production with Madrid’s Teatro Real, Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu and Sicily’s Teatro Massimo di
Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti / A Quiet Place at the Linbury theatre, Covent Garden – Riveting performances for Bernstein’s double bill, but his last opera remains largely unconvincing – Opera Today
Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti (1952) and A Quiet Place (1983) provide a fascinating glimpse of his stylistic development across some thirty years, seen through the lives of a dysfunctional family. Both works allow insights into
DiDonato’s compelling Death of Cleopatra opens a thrilling LPO concert – Opera Today
Vengeance and Death. Medea and Cleopatra. These were the themes that provided the opening works to the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s new season that will be devoted to Moments Remembered which will explore the crossroads of
Jumbotron at the Opera: Madama Butterfly at LA Opera – Opera Today
All three acts of Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly take place in a tiny Japanese cottage on an isolated hill overlooking Nagasaki. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, an American naval officer, has purchased this modest dwelling for Cio-Cio
Mixed performances within an austere Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera House – Opera Today
Tchaikovsky’s tragic masterpiece can be presented with the minimum of means and on the smallest of scales, and this new production from American director Tedd Huffman, making his long-anticipated main house debut at ROH, decides
The 2024 Wigmore Hall / Bollinger Song Competition 2024 Final – Opera Today
The Wigmore Hall / Bollinger Song Competition has a distinguished list of previous winners, including Marcus Farnsworth, Julien van Mellaerts, Stephan Loges, Ian Tinsdale, James Baillieu, James Middleton and Christopher Gould. Two preliminary rounds (September 7/8)
A comic take on Gazzaniga’s Alcina from Bampton Classical Opera – Opera Today
Bampton Classical Opera brought Giuseppe Gazzaniga's L'Isole d'Alcina (Alcina’s Island) to London in Gilly French's English translation in a production directed and designed by Jeremy Gray with Thomas Blunt conducting Chroma. Written in 1771 and
PROM 50: A curate’s egg of an evening but a magnificent Glagolitic Mass – Opera Today
For the second of two consecutive appearances at the Albert Hall, Jakub Hrůša and his Prague-based orchestra delivered an all-Czech programme showcasing a Proms premiere, a seldom-heard piano concerto and a remarkably unorthodox sacred work
The Puccini Festival at Torre del Lago springs a surprise in the composer’s final opera with its homage to the premiere’s abrupt conclusion – Opera Today
2024 is the centenary anniversary of Puccini’s death, and so it makes sense that the prominent festival of the composer’s operas at Torre del Lago (the Tuscan lakeside resort where he lived) should feature Turandot
The Gambler (Игрокъ) and The Idiot (Идиот) at Salzburg’s Rock Riding School – Opera Today
The Salzburg Festival’s Felsenreitschule is home to most of its productions of twentieth century opera, just now two Russian operas based on novels by Fyodor Dostoevsky — Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Idiot (1987, though premiered in
Glimmerglass: Impassioned Pagliacci Plus A Surprise – Opera Today
Shortly before the curtain rose on a splendid production of the evergreen favorite, Pagliacci, we were informed that Glimmerglass Music Director Joseph Colaneri was indisposed and would not conduct. That the performance not only went on