Opera

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…

A night at the circus

29 October 2016 9:00 am

The Royal Opera’s latest production is Shostakovich’s The Nose and to paraphrase Mark Steyn, whatever else can be said about…

Nose job: Shostakovich’s ‘The Nose’ at the Royal Opera House

A night at the circus

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

The Royal Opera’s latest production is Shostakovich’s The Nose and to paraphrase Mark Steyn, whatever else can be said about…

Nose job: Shostakovich’s ‘The Nose’ at the Royal Opera House

A night at the circus

27 October 2016 2:00 pm

The Royal Opera’s latest production is Shostakovich’s The Nose and to paraphrase Mark Steyn, whatever else can be said about…

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

High and low

22 October 2016 9:00 am

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

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…

Sinful treat

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Sweet and sour: Ylva Kihlberg as the Marschallin and Helen Sherman as Octavian in Opera North’s ‘Rosenkavalier’

Sinful treat

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Sweet and sour: Ylva Kihlberg as the Marschallin and Helen Sherman as Octavian in Opera North’s ‘Rosenkavalier’

Sinful treat

13 October 2016 2:00 pm

Shiny swags of gold cloth hang in front of the curtain before David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier, and that’s…

Hole in the heart

8 October 2016 9:00 am

Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…

Hole in the heart

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…

Hole in the heart

6 October 2016 2:00 pm

Richard Jones’s new production of Don Giovanni at ENO bears some passing resemblances to the opera as envisaged by its…

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…

Not so Super Mario: Vito Priante as Figaro in ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’ at the Royal Opera House

Pole apart

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…

Not so Super Mario: Vito Priante as Figaro in ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’ at the Royal Opera House

Pole apart

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

Alas, poor André Tchaikowsky. A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, with an assumed name that probably did his musical career…

Super Norma

17 September 2016 9:00 am

The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…

Super Norma

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…

Super Norma

15 September 2016 1:00 pm

The Royal Opera has opened the season with a triumph, and in one of the most difficult of operas, Bellini’s…

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…