Michael Tanner

Dorset’s winning formula

12 August 2016 11:00 pm

Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…

Dorset’s winning formula

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…

Dorset’s winning formula

11 August 2016 1:00 pm

Dorset Opera seems to receive far less coverage than the rest of the country-house summer shows, although it is in…

Wardrobe malfunction

18 June 2016 8:00 am

It is at the Coliseum that I have seen the most wonderful Tristan and Isoldes of my life, both of…

Stuart Skelton (Tristan) and Heidi Melton (Isolde) in Anish Kapoor’s volcano

Wardrobe malfunction

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

It is at the Coliseum that I have seen the most wonderful Tristan and Isoldes of my life, both of…

Stuart Skelton (Tristan) and Heidi Melton (Isolde) in Anish Kapoor’s volcano

Wardrobe malfunction

16 June 2016 1:00 pm

It is at the Coliseum that I have seen the most wonderful Tristan and Isoldes of my life, both of…

The supremes

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

When I interviewed Richard Farnes in Leeds six years ago about Opera North’s project of performing the complete Ring, he…

The supremes

2 June 2016 1:00 pm

When I interviewed Richard Farnes in Leeds six years ago about Opera North’s project of performing the complete Ring, he…

Myth-making

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

For years I have been telling people that they should listen to, in the absence of staged performances, Enescu’s opera…

Myth-making

26 May 2016 1:00 pm

For years I have been telling people that they should listen to, in the absence of staged performances, Enescu’s opera…

‘His operas offer a straightforward experience’

Verdi

19 May 2016 1:00 pm

Verdi has a peculiar if not unique place in the pantheon of great composers. If you love classical music at…

Bell canto

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Cursed, or perhaps blessed, with almost no visual memory at all, I had almost completely forgotten what the Royal Opera’s…

Bell canto

5 May 2016 1:00 pm

Cursed, or perhaps blessed, with almost no visual memory at all, I had almost completely forgotten what the Royal Opera’s…

Sound and vision

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Janacek’s Jenufa, his first great opera, had a one-night stand at the Royal Festival Hall last Monday, courtesy of the…

Sound and vision

28 April 2016 1:00 pm

Janacek’s Jenufa, his first great opera, had a one-night stand at the Royal Festival Hall last Monday, courtesy of the…

Drowning in detail: Vicki Mortimer’s sets for Royal Opera’s production of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

There will be blood

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the two or three Donizetti operas that have never fallen out of the repertoire,…

Drowning in detail: Vicki Mortimer’s sets for Royal Opera’s production of ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’

There will be blood

14 April 2016 1:00 pm

Lucia di Lammermoor is one of the two or three Donizetti operas that have never fallen out of the repertoire,…

Original sin

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

The Royal Opera has bitten the bullet so far as Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov goes, and opted to stage the original…

Original sin

17 March 2016 3:00 pm

The Royal Opera has bitten the bullet so far as Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov goes, and opted to stage the original…

Norma at the ENO (Photo: Alastair Muir)

…Long live ENO!

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

The three most moving, transporting death scenes in 19th-century opera all involve the respective heroines mounting a funeral pyre —…

Norma at the ENO (Photo: Alastair Muir)

…Long live ENO!

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

The three most moving, transporting death scenes in 19th-century opera all involve the respective heroines mounting a funeral pyre —…

Straight talking

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

It’s widely agreed that the most difficult form of opera to bring off is operetta, whether of the Austro-German or…

Straight talking

4 February 2016 3:00 pm

It’s widely agreed that the most difficult form of opera to bring off is operetta, whether of the Austro-German or…

Annemarie Kremer as Maddelena. Photo Credit: Robert Workman

Northern lights

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

Opera North continues to be the most reliable, inspiring, resourceful and enterprising opera company in the United Kingdom, and all…

Annemarie Kremer as Maddelena. Photo Credit: Robert Workman

Northern lights

28 January 2016 3:00 pm

Opera North continues to be the most reliable, inspiring, resourceful and enterprising opera company in the United Kingdom, and all…