Opera

Original sin

19 March 2016 9:00 am

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…

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…

Naked ambition: Anthony Roth Costanzo in Philip Glass’s ‘Akhnaten’

Round-up of new opera

12 March 2016 9:00 am

A mixed year so far for new opera. A few really dismal things have appeared from people who should know…

Naked ambition: Anthony Roth Costanzo in Philip Glass’s ‘Akhnaten’

Round-up of new opera

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

A mixed year so far for new opera. A few really dismal things have appeared from people who should know…

Naked ambition: Anthony Roth Costanzo in Philip Glass’s ‘Akhnaten’

Round-up of new opera

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

A mixed year so far for new opera. A few really dismal things have appeared from people who should know…

Excess baggage

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Near the end of Elena Langer’s new opera Figaro Gets a Divorce, as the Almaviva household — now emigrés in…

Excess baggage

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Near the end of Elena Langer’s new opera Figaro Gets a Divorce, as the Almaviva household — now emigrés in…

Excess baggage

3 March 2016 3:00 pm

Near the end of Elena Langer’s new opera Figaro Gets a Divorce, as the Almaviva household — now emigrés in…

Choristers from the English National Opera (Photo: Getty)

ENO must go…

27 February 2016 9:00 am

Last week Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, revealed that opera receives just under a fifth of the…

Norma at the ENO (Photo: Alastair Muir)

…Long live ENO!

27 February 2016 9:00 am

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

Choristers from the English National Opera (Photo: Getty)

ENO must go…

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

Last week Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, revealed that opera receives just under a fifth of the…

Choristers from the English National Opera (Photo: Getty)

ENO must go…

25 February 2016 3:00 pm

Last week Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England, revealed that opera receives just under a fifth of the…

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 —…

Nicholas Lester as Figaro and Nico Darmanin as Count Almaviva

Not a pretty sight

20 February 2016 9:00 am

‘Forget Downton Abbey!’ exhorts David Pountney in the programme for Figaro Forever, Welsh National Opera’s season of Beaumarchais operas, The…

Nicholas Lester as Figaro and Nico Darmanin as Count Almaviva

Not a pretty sight

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

‘Forget Downton Abbey!’ exhorts David Pountney in the programme for Figaro Forever, Welsh National Opera’s season of Beaumarchais operas, The…

Nicholas Lester as Figaro and Nico Darmanin as Count Almaviva

Not a pretty sight

18 February 2016 3:00 pm

‘Forget Downton Abbey!’ exhorts David Pountney in the programme for Figaro Forever, Welsh National Opera’s season of Beaumarchais operas, The…

World-weary rather than carefree: Peter Coleman-Wright as Papageno

Mozart magic

13 February 2016 9:00 am

Centre stage, there’s an industrial-looking black platform, secured by cables. The Three Ladies snap the unconscious Tamino on a mobile…

World-weary rather than carefree: Peter Coleman-Wright as Papageno

Mozart magic

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

Centre stage, there’s an industrial-looking black platform, secured by cables. The Three Ladies snap the unconscious Tamino on a mobile…

World-weary rather than carefree: Peter Coleman-Wright as Papageno

Mozart magic

11 February 2016 3:00 pm

Centre stage, there’s an industrial-looking black platform, secured by cables. The Three Ladies snap the unconscious Tamino on a mobile…

Straight talking

6 February 2016 9:00 am

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…

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

30 January 2016 9:00 am

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