Reading Time: 3 minutesTaking centre stage alongside a top-flight international cast, the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North are at the heart of the musical spectacle in this live concert staging of Verdi’s operatic thriller.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA charming but risk averse production of one of the more flawed G&S operettas The Sorcerer remains one of the middling Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, not necessarily in quality but in popularity. It sits neither on the…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOxford Opera’s production of Tosca at the Oxford Playhouse offered an ambitious and emotionally charged interpretation of Puccini’s masterpiece. With a fresh English translation by Christopher Cowell.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Royal Academy Opera's Die Zauberflöte, directed by Jamie Manton, assembles an audacious blend of gifted musicians and performers, all set against a backdrop of mesmerising, ethereal lights that seem to defy gravity, navigating us through the unfolding drama.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMozart's The Magic Flute is an opera that walks a fine line between whimsical fantasy and profound philosophical musings, and Opera North’s latest production at The Lowry, Manchester, strikes that balance with flair and imagination.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis was Mozart at its most magical, Wilton’s at its most atmospheric, and Charles Court Opera at its absolute best There are productions of The Magic Flute that dazzle, and then there are productions that truly transport…
Reading Time: 2 minutesEloise Lally brings a mobster twist to English Touring Opera’s The Capulets & The Montagues
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Makropulos Affair finds its elixir of life to remain immortally relevant ‘How ugly to be old!’ Composed in the 1920s by Czech composer Leoš Janáček, The Makropulos Affair is an opera based on a play by…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMajestic - Lu created a sense of urgency throughout throughout, making it so that I couldn’t take my eyes off of the keys for fear of missing even the smallest of moments
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Manchester Collective's Fever concert was a captivating blend of bold programming, virtuosic performance, and rich emotional contrasts that left the audience spellbound.