Review: La Boheme, Royal Opera House
Puccini's La Bohème is a mini masterpiece. It's concise and relatively short by operatic standards, but also fulfils the criteria of some gorgeous arias and ens...
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Review: La Traviata, Royal Opera House
In contrast to Krol Roger, Kasper Holten's production also running at ROH this season, everyone at least knows of Verdi's La Traviata, and especially this produ...
Review: Król Roger, Royal Opera House
Szymanowski's short but gripping opera Król Roger comes to the Royal Opera House for the first time. Composed in 1926, the work has only begun to be programmed ...
Review: ATTHIS, Royal Opera House
Viennese musicologist Wolfgang Schaufler said: “to experience the music of Georg Friedrich Haas means letting go... making a journey to an unknown destination” ...
Review: Il Turco in Italia, Royal Opera House
As the Rossini biographer Stendhal puts it, "Rossini is always amusing, Mozart never; Mozart is like a mistress who is always serious and often sad, but whose v...
Review: King Size, Royal Opera House
It's a change for me to see something at the Royal Opera House that is not an opera or a ballet, albeit in the Linbury Studio Theatre. First performed in Basel ...