 | Ariadne auf Naxos    19 May 2013 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 qu.... More... |
 | La donna del lago     18 May 2013 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.” It.... More... |
 | Wozzeck      12 May 2013 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. Theatre wunderkind Rupert Goold was down t.... More... |
 | Don Carlo      9 May 2013 Cynics had a field day when the Royal Opera announced Anja Harteros for the role of Elisabeth in Don Carlo, and the no-show diva with a second-to-none cancellation record (or a next-to-none attendan.... More... |
 | Die Zauberflöte     5 May 2013 A very British ‘Flute’ graces the stage for phase two of the Royal Opera’s latest revival. All but a handful of the named principals are home-grown singers, surely a first in r.... More... |
 | La bohème     1 May 2013 ENO have opened their summer season in style with a newly-minted, endearing and engrossing revival of Jonathan Miller’s staging of La bohème. .... More... |
 | Ballo    25 April 2013 Just two months after their successful production of Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'amore, OperaUpClose are back at the King's Head Theatre with a collaborative adaptation of Verdi's Un ballo in masch.... More... |
 | Nabucco     16 April 2013 Let’s be clear about this; we’re only back for Plácido. Nothing has changed in Daniele Abbado’s indifferently received staging of Verdi’s Nabucco save the tenant o.... More... |
 | Sunken Garden   13 April 2013 English National Gizmo is back. The prevailing Coliseum precept that new commissions must include cutting-edge technology has taken ENO on a Barbican .... More... |
 | Parsifal     31 March 2013 Bavarian State Opera, Munich "Erlösung dem Erlöser”, or “the redeemer, redeemed” are the final words of Wagner’s valedictory opera, or to lend it the composer̵.... More... |