Ullmann & Mozart: KaiserRequiem at Volksoper Wien | Live Review
- Monday, January 27, 2025
Despite the satire in the piece, the resulting production is slick, sensitive and respectful
Reviews
Weill: Love Life at Grand Theatre Leeds | Live Review
- Friday, January 24, 2025
Overall Opera North did this rare piece, which shows Weill on wonderful form, to a very high standard
Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel at the Royal Academy of Music | Live Review
- Tuesday, January 21, 2025
This was Humperdinck out of the imagination of ETA Hoffmann, a doomy and psychologically unstable atmosphere where a lot of nightmarish things can happen
Strauss: Salome at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen | Live Review
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Mondtag’s picture-book story-telling indulges fully in the implications, but toys with the funny side in a rather coy way that never really catches fire
Verdi: Aida at the Metropolitan Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Martin Mayer’s shiny, new production, it turns out, is almost every bit as grand and conventional as was Sonja Frisell’s in 1988
Puccini: La bohème at Royal Opera, Covent Garden | Live Review
- Friday, December 20, 2024
A terrific Mimì and multi-layered Musetta bring Puccini's love story to life
Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten at Metropolitan Opera New York
- Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads a captivating revival of Herbert Wernicke's iconic production
Recording Review – Puccini La boheme – Pavarotti, Karajan
- Monday, December 16, 2024
Re-released by Decca with bells and whistles, this would make a sumptuous gift
Review – Benjamin Appl 'The Christmas Album'
- Monday, December 16, 2024
'Every number is considered and he takes care to colour his voice to match the mood, generally with success as he sings across five languages.'
Puccini: La rondine at Barbican | Live Review
- Thursday, December 12, 2024
What you lose in true operatic punch is repaid in spades by the most sheerly enjoyable, least boring outpouring of heart-thrilling late romanticism ever penned
Pfitzner: Palestrina at Vienna State Opera | Live Review
- Monday, December 9, 2024
Thielemann injected pace and clarity of line into the score – even if he didn’t iron out all its longueurs – and drew tremendous playing from the orchestra
Porpora: Polifemo at Versailles | Live Review
- Monday, December 9, 2024
The Versailles production is a masterclass in how historically-informed stagings can succeed
Britten, Weill and Ravel at Royal College of Music | Live Review
- Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Three 20th Century operas are presented in great style at the London conservatoire
Gilbert & Sullivan: The Pirates of Penzance at English National Opera | Live Review
- Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Mike Leigh’s 2015 production gets on with the job, which is no bad thing, but a sense of originality is missing
Verdi: Otello at Teatro La Fenice | Live Review
- Monday, December 2, 2024
Ceresa’s over-embellishment of the opera’s extreme elements align with the ambitions of a composer at the height of his powers
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