Opera

Comic relief

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Comic opera is no laughing matter. Seriously, when was the last time you laughed out loud in the opera house?…

Comic relief

7 April 2016 1:00 pm

Comic opera is no laughing matter. Seriously, when was the last time you laughed out loud in the opera house?…

The kids are all right

2 April 2016 9:00 am

In a remote fishing village a lone figure confronts an unexplained death, standing tormented but unbroken against fate, the community…

The kids are all right

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

In a remote fishing village a lone figure confronts an unexplained death, standing tormented but unbroken against fate, the community…

The kids are all right

31 March 2016 2:00 pm

In a remote fishing village a lone figure confronts an unexplained death, standing tormented but unbroken against fate, the community…

Carry on Don

26 March 2016 9:00 am

One of these days I will probably see a production of Don Giovanni set in a research station in the…

Carry on Don

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

One of these days I will probably see a production of Don Giovanni set in a research station in the…

Carry on Don

23 March 2016 3:00 pm

One of these days I will probably see a production of Don Giovanni set in a research station in the…

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…