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Kentridge’s Die Zauberflöte adds Christmasy touches at the New National Theatre, Tokyo – Opera Today
In December, Japanese theatres and concert halls customarily perform two blockbusters: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Now, a third seasonal piece might have been discovered: certainly William Kentridge’s 2005 production of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte
Rossini’s Guillaume Tell Triumphs at the New National Theatre Tokyo – Opera Today
To most Japanese, the overture of Guillaume Tell (William Tell) is familiar, evoking memories of Sports Day at elementary school. Nevertheless, this was the first full-scale staged production of Rossini’s final and arguably greatest opera
The BBCSO explore the relationship with God and Man in works by Haydn, Moussa and Strauss – Opera Today
On the face of it music criticism has often seemed to me a very unimaginative profession. Take this BBCSO concert, for example, the programming of which has largely appeared to have eluded some. Three works,
Of human suffering: the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s powerful Shostakovich Babi Yar – Opera Today
You’d have to be a strange kind of human being not to smell death in Shostakovich’s Thirteenth Symphony. Icy, spooky and deeply unsettling orchestral sounds at the outset give way to the harrowing first words
Why aligning yourself with Satanic forces is never a good idea: Staatsoper Hamburg’s new production of Der Freischütz – Opera Today
It’s not an uncommon experience for people to wake up in the middle of the night, believing they have heard unsettling noises, or feeling those early palpitations of concern about a difficult day of work
The Busoni Centenary: Kirill Gerstein and the BBC Chorus in Busoni’s genre-defying Piano Concerto at the Barbican – Opera Today
The centenary of Ferruccio Busoni’s death fell earlier this year, not that ninety-nine per cent of the musical world appears to have noticed. Where are the operas, even his masterpiece and summa, Doktor Faust this
An engaging evening of fun demonstrating the very real virtues of Gilbert & Sullivan at its best – Opera Today
Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddigore presents several challenges, notably the technical one of bringing the ghosts of the ancestors out of their portraits and the more philosophical one of Victorian melodrama. Jo Davies' 2010 production of
La battaglia di Legnano at Parma’s Verdi Festival gives cause to reflect on the human and animal cost of war – Opera Today
La battaglia di Legnano represents the climax of Verdi's nationalist, Risorgimento era operas: composed during the period of widespread revolutionary fervour across Italy (and Europe) in 1848, it was premiered at the beginning of the
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