Review: Elektra
An epic and destructive blood-soaked tour-de-force, Strauss’ Elektra is no stranger to the Royal Opera House, already seeing revivals in 2003 and 2008. Beginn...
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Review: Le nozze di Figaro
Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is a perennial favourite among opera fans, and David McVicar’s acclaimed 2006 production has returned to the Royal Opera House for...
Edinburgh International Festival Review: Dido and Aeneas/Bluebeard’s Castle
Some valuable life advice: if you're a female character in an opera, do not fall in love. Chances are you'll end up cursed, dead or trapped forever in your mu...
Review: La Traviata
Between the time Giuseppe Verdi debuted La Traviata in the mid nineteenth century and today, there have been enormous changes to opera audiences — and I’m not j...
Review: The Lighthouse
The English Touring Opera’s autumn 2012 season includes The Lighthouse, a story based on real events in the Orkney port of Stromness. A supply ship pulled in ...
Review: Tosca
Staging Puccini's legendary Tosca on a small stage in the back of a pub is one of those things you have to see to believe it's possible. Big voices in a tin...