Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina at Salzburg Easter Festival | Live Review
- Monday, April 14, 2025
Good Morning, Moscow! The McBurneys give Khovanshchina a modern twist
Reviews
Bizet: Carmen at the Royal Opera | Live Review
- Monday, April 14, 2025
Every production of Carmen lives and dies by its leading lady, and Aigul Akhmetshina is certainly key to this production’s success
Britten: Peter Grimes at Welsh National Opera | Live Review
- Monday, April 7, 2025
Wearing 'Save our WNO' T-shirts at the curtain call, they were joined by the full orchestra and stage crew in a powerful demonstration of unity against the ongoing savage cuts to its funding that...
Handel: Apollo e Dafne and The Choice of Hercules at Shoreditch Town Hall | Live Review
- Monday, March 31, 2025
Unlikely that either was staged (or even contemplated to be staged) in Handel’s lifetime, but such dramatic elements as narratives and defined characters naturally tempts organisations to present them
Gerald Barry: Salome at Theater Magdeburg | Live Review
- Monday, March 31, 2025
Theater Magdeburg’s cast, brilliantly committed across the board, convey the energy in irresistible fashion
Prokofiev: Betrothal in a Monastery at MusikTheater an der Wien | Live Review
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
Damiano Micheletto has a lot of fun with his subject, bolstered by a largely Russian cast who milk it with style
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta in Wiener Staatsoper | Live Review
- Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Even the director’s curtain call was greeted by unanimous cheers for what is easily the best new production of the season here thus far
El Turk: Oum – A Son’s Quest for His Mother at Dutch National Opera
- Monday, March 24, 2025
Bushra El Turk's new opera forced us to consider the musical icon of Oum Kaltoum and her impact on memory, love and connection for so many in the Arabic world
Venables: We Are The Lucky Ones at Dutch National Opera | Live Review
- Sunday, March 23, 2025
Though moments of clever irony emerged, much of this world premiere felt needlessly overwhelming
Puccini: Turandot at Royal Opera House | Live Review
- Thursday, March 20, 2025
No spectacle is left languishing in the director’s theatrical chest
Le nozze di Figaro at the Royal College of Music | Live Review
- Tuesday, March 18, 2025
This production's success lies in its principals, rather than in the direction
Britten: Peter Grimes at the Gothenburg Opera | Live Review
- Monday, March 17, 2025
Grimes plays to Gothenburg’s strengths as an ensemble company, even if shortcomings here underline what a treacherously difficult piece this remains for non-natives
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Royal Danish Opera | Live Review
- Monday, March 17, 2025
Laurent Pelly’s production is theatrically joyous and unfailingly penetrating
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto at Hamburg State Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Stripping away nearly everything that isn’t music turns the strongest focus on singing, and this was uniformly highly impressive
Wagner: Götterdämmerung at Regents Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, March 4, 2025
An absolute triumph, all brought together by Ben Woodward’s intimate knowledge of this score
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