Alexandra Coghlan

All’s well that ends well

26 November 2016 9:00 am

The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…

All at sea: Rachel Kelly as Donna Elvira and Henk Neven as Don Giovanni in Northern Ireland Opera’s ‘Don Giovanni’

All’s well that ends well

24 November 2016 3:00 pm

The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…

All at sea: Rachel Kelly as Donna Elvira and Henk Neven as Don Giovanni in Northern Ireland Opera’s ‘Don Giovanni’

All’s well that ends well

24 November 2016 3:00 pm

The last ten minutes of any Don Giovanni tell you more about a director than the previous two hours. Mozart’s…

Buried treasure

5 November 2016 9:00 am

Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…

Buried treasure

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…

Buried treasure

3 November 2016 3:00 pm

Wexford is to opera-goers what casinos are to gamblers. The uncertainty, the hope, the exhilaration — they’re all a crucial…

High and low

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…

Carry on camping: English Touring Opera’s ‘La Calisto’

High and low

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…

Carry on camping: English Touring Opera’s ‘La Calisto’

High and low

20 October 2016 2:00 pm

‘Besides feeble writing, there is a mixture of tragic-comedy and buffoonery in it, which Apostolo Zeno and Metastasio had banished…

Losing heart

1 October 2016 9:00 am

The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…

Ben Baur’s stylish designs for ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Royal Opera House

Losing heart

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…

Ben Baur’s stylish designs for ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Royal Opera House

Losing heart

29 September 2016 1:00 pm

The subtitle for Mozart’s Così fan tutte may be ‘The School For Lovers’, but it’s as a school for directors…

Saintly sins

10 September 2016 9:00 am

They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…

Vocal authority: Mandla Mndebele as Mandela and Siphamandla Yakupa as Winnie in ‘Mandela Trilogy’

Saintly sins

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…

Vocal authority: Mandla Mndebele as Mandela and Siphamandla Yakupa as Winnie in ‘Mandela Trilogy’

Saintly sins

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

They say that the devil gets all the best tunes, and on the basis of this week’s opera-going it would…

French connection

30 July 2016 9:00 am

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…

Thinking inside the box: Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice) and the chorus in ‘Béatrice et Bénédict’ at Glyndebourne

French connection

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…

Thinking inside the box: Stéphanie d’Oustrac (Béatrice) and the chorus in ‘Béatrice et Bénédict’ at Glyndebourne

French connection

28 July 2016 1:00 pm

It takes a particularly wilful wit to alight on Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict as the perfect operatic nod to a…

Fifty shades of grey

9 July 2016 9:00 am

Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…

Brutality, brutalism and barbed wire: Maurizio Muraro as Ferrando in David Bösch’s ‘Il trovatore’

Fifty shades of grey

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…

Brutality, brutalism and barbed wire: Maurizio Muraro as Ferrando in David Bösch’s ‘Il trovatore’

Fifty shades of grey

7 July 2016 1:00 pm

Grey men in grey overcoats walking through grey architecture. If you had to pick an image to reflect the current…

Light and shade

2 July 2016 9:00 am

Comedy and tragedy sit close beside one another in Mozart’s operas. Whether it’s the grinning horror of the Così finale…

The food of love

2 July 2016 9:00 am

‘You are the most adorable man and artist, intelligent, gifted, simple, loving and noble… I am really very, very lucky…

Light and shade

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Comedy and tragedy sit close beside one another in Mozart’s operas. Whether it’s the grinning horror of the Così finale…

Light and shade

30 June 2016 1:00 pm

Comedy and tragedy sit close beside one another in Mozart’s operas. Whether it’s the grinning horror of the Così finale…