Verdi: Nabucco at Oper Köln | Live Review
- Monday, December 2, 2024
Oper Köln’s Nabucco should serve as a reminder of what can be achieved when the full resources of a company are allowed to shine
Reviews
Puccini: Tosca at Royal Opera Covent Garden | Live Review
- Saturday, November 30, 2024
A stellar cast propels this 2005 revival of Puccini's iconic melodrama
Verdi: Otello at Gothenburg Opera | Live Review
- Friday, November 29, 2024
A new production from Rafael R Villalobos brings the audience face-to-face with the character's psychological decline
Strauss: Intermezzo at Semperoper Dresden | Live Review
- Thursday, November 21, 2024
A breezy, entertaining new production of Strauss's comedy from Axel Ranisch and the Semperoper Dresden
Donizetti: The Elixir of Love at English National Opera | Live Review
- Monday, November 18, 2024
Harry Fehr brings a reading of immense warmth and intimacy to Donizetti's score
Rosa Feola and Carlo Rizzi at the Wigmore Hall | Live Review
- Monday, November 18, 2024
Opera Rara continues its Donizetti Song Project at Wigmore Hall, this time with soprano Rosa Feola
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House | Live Review
- Friday, November 15, 2024
The new staging is lively, often misguided and at times plain stupid
Pavel Haas: The Charlatan at Janáček International Festival in Brno | Live Review
- Thursday, November 14, 2024
A new production of The Charlatan by Pavel Haas, one of Janáček's most gifted students, showcases the prowess of the Czech composer's musical work
Wexford Opera Festival 2024: Live Review Roundup
- Tuesday, November 5, 2024
A fascinating collection of operatic rarities from the 2024 edition of this Irish opera festival
Puccini: Madama Butterfly at Danish National Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Of the many ways directors are currently reframing this story, special pleading for Pinkerton seems curiously at odds with the zeitgeist
Oxford International Song Festival roundup | Live Review
- Thursday, October 31, 2024
'Without doubt this is the most ambitious song event in Britain' – Adrian Mourby surveys proceedings at the Oxford-based festival
Wagner: Das Rheingold at La Scala | Live Review
- Tuesday, October 29, 2024
A mixture of fantasy and fairytale in a handsome but safe opening production
Wagner: Tristan und Isolde at San Francisco Opera | Live Review
- Monday, October 28, 2024
This return of Wagner’s inexhaustible opera to the War Memorial Opera House for the first time in 18 years will undoubtedly be recalled as a high-water mark
Verdi: Giovanna d’Arco at Malmö Opera | Live Review
- Monday, October 21, 2024
It’s good to see Malmö’s chorus centre-stage again, at the heart of a company that appears to be on a roll
Tazewell Thompson: Jubilee at Seattle Opera | Live Review
- Thursday, October 17, 2024
Jubilee is a quintessentially ensemble opera, for which Thompson assembled an excellent cast of 13 singers, most of them making their Seattle Opera debuts ⭐⭐⭐⭐
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