Messiaen: Song Cycles 1, Gweneth Ann Rand, Simon Lepper and Rachel Jones at the Aldeburgh Festival | Live Review
- Friday, June 21, 2024
A scintillating collaboration between soprano and artist brought Messiaen's music to life
Reviews
Strauss: Salome at Opéra National de Paris | Live Review
- Thursday, June 20, 2024
'Mark Wigglesworth conducted with vigour, but the strange acoustics of the Bastille sometimes undid his good work'
Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream at Garsington Opera | Live Review
- Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Midsummer, but without the magic: a monochromatic Dream at Garsington
Puccini: Il trittico at Welsh National Opera | Live Review
- Monday, June 17, 2024
Trebles all round: McVicar’s terrific Trittico arrives in Cardiff
Puccini: La Rondine with the Hungarian Opera of Cluj-Napoca at the Bucharest Opera Festival | Live Review
- Friday, June 14, 2024
Puccini's centenary year celebrated at the Bucharest National Opera with this performance of 'La rondine'
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina at Berlin State Opera | Live Review
- Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Mussorgsky's opera given a cinematic presentation in this production at the German capital's opera house
Lehár: The Merry Widow at Glyndebourne | Live Review
- Monday, June 10, 2024
'Glitz, glamour, but too much padding'
Weir: Blond Eckbert with English Touring Opera at the Aldeburgh Festival | Live Review
- Monday, June 10, 2024
Influences of Film Noir and Romantic art brought a fascinating reading of Judith Weir's 1994 opera to open the Aldeburgh Festival
Handel: Giulio Cesare at Blackwater Valley Opera | Live Review
- Thursday, June 6, 2024
The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival stages a revival of Handel's opera
Beethoven: Fidelio at the Barbican | Live Review
- Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the LA Philharmonic with this unique presentation of Beethoven's opera
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro at Garsington Opera | Live Review
- Monday, June 3, 2024
Crisp comedy and period panache in Garsington’s Figaro
Giordano: Andrea Chénier at the Royal Opera House | Live Review
- Friday, May 31, 2024
Pappano's final production as the Royal Opera’s music director is a success
Operettas by women composers at Dresden Music Festival's 'Wagner Plus' series | Live Review
- Wednesday, May 29, 2024
In a concert titled 'Musica Non Grata: Silent Voices in a Noisy World', the operettas of composers Amélie Nikisch and Racel Danziger van Embden were contextualised with a musicological presentation
Wagner: Die Walküre at Dresden Music Festival | Live Review
- Tuesday, May 28, 2024
The second installment of Wagner's Ring Cycle, 'The Wagner Cycles', on period instruments with Kent Nagano and the Dresden Festival Orchestra
Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade with Les Talens Lyriques at the Royal Opera of Versailles
- Friday, May 24, 2024
A concert setting of Cimarosa's opera at the Château de Versailles showed singing of great determination and focus
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