Opera
Lohengrin - Welsh National Opera
A champion comes to Elsa’s rescue but she must not ask his name. When it looks as if Elsa may have found happiness, forces of darkness conspire against her. This epic fairytale contains some of Wagner’s most beguiling and beautiful music. It’s th
Wozzeck
Carrie Cracknell's Wootton Bassett Wozzeck is the most assured ENO debut for years, giving us a vision of Berg’s masterpiece that chills to the bone.
La Donna Del Iago
In his biography of Rossini, Richard Osborne says of La donna del lago that it’s “ill-suited to larger houses, however grand the piece can be made to seem scenically.”
Aridadne auf Naxos
News leaked out about Glyndebourne’s season-opener, a new production of Richard Strauss’s delicious confection Ariadne auf Naxos, a few days in advance of the first night, setting up quite an expectation of what was to come.
Classical Opera: Tales from Ovid - Wigmore Hall
The fifteen books of Ovid’s Metamorphoses have inspired composers from Cavalli and Monteverdi to Britten and beyond. Classical Opera’s fascinating programme prefaces enchanting transformation scenes from operas by the three greatest composers of th
Ariadne auf Naxos, Glyndebourne, Lewes
Glyndebourne opens the summer festival season with a new production of the elegant Strauss/Hofmannsthal conceit in which preparations for a new opera seria by a young composer are rudely interrupted by the announcement that it will be played simultaneousl
Does this man smell? Bollocks!
Scots are fuming over their haggis at John Fulljames's portrayal of Highlanders in La donna del lago reports the Herald.
Classical review: Wozzack, The Helmand years
Three years ago, on a train to Newcastle, I met a young soldier on leave from Helmand.
Rolando Villazon - review
As well as writing about Verdi, and presenting a documentary to celebrate his bicentenary, Rolando Villazón is on a 15-date European tour in which he sings arias by the composer, accompanied in London by the Philharmonia Orchestra under the Russian condu