People railing at Timothée Chalamet over his correct opera and ballet remarks are more attention starved than he is
I am supremely fed up with one of the silliest Oscar controversies…
Confusion Reigns in The Makropulos Case at the Royal Opera
Earlier this month, the prolific director Katie Mitchell announced her retirement from…
Dead Man Walking an emotional triumph at the London Coliseum
Dead Man Walking had its origins in a 1993 memoir by Helen…
Surprisingly tasty Herring at the English National Opera
Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring is one of his least often performed operas:…
Extra-magical Magic Flute at the Royal Opera
The Magic Flute may be the most difficult of Mozart's comic operas…
Too Many Cars in Carmen at ENO
Carmen has everything one could wish for in an opera: glorious music…
Rossini's Cinderella full of surprises at the ENO
When Rossini and his librettist Jacopo Ferretti turned Cinderella into an opera…
Ukrainian protest against Russian soprano Anna Netrebko adds tension to Tosca premiere
After more than a dozen revivals of Jonathan Kent's brilliant 2006 production…
Opera review: Flawed Janáček's Kát'a Kabanova redeemed by glorious singing at Glyndebourne
Kát'a Kabanova is one of the most tragic of all operatic heroines.…
Opera review: Verdi's Falstaff is a Comic Treat at Glyndebourne
Written in the 1890s when the composer was in his late 70s,…
