Royal Opera House’s ‘La Bohème’ Headed to Cinemas this October

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Puccini’s “La Bohème” is headed to the silver screen on Oct. 20, 2022 courtesy of the Royal Opera House’s upcoming production. Audiences will see Richard Jones’ production with a cast starring Ailyn Pérez, Juan Diego Flórez, Andrey Zhilikhovsky, Dnaielle De Niese, Michael Mofidian, and Ross Ramgolbin. Kevin John Edusei conducts the production. There will be an encore presentation on Oct. {…}

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Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Announces Future Opening Productions

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The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma has announced the season-opening productions for the 2023-24, 2024-25, and 2025-26 seasons. During a press release announcing the company’s 2022-23 season, the Rome opera noted that it will open its new seasons on Nov. 27. The date will allow the company to open its house to international opera-goers and for audiences to program their visit {…}

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Opera North 2022 Review: Parsifal

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(Photo: Mark Allan) Last time Opera North visited London’s Southbank Centre it was for an award-winning semi-staged Ring cycle, conducted by then music director Richard Farnes. They even made a gripping and hugely instructive recording for YouTube that shows the entire tetralogy from a camera placed right in front of the conductor. He returns to the Royal Festival Hall with {…}

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Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2022: La Bohème

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Photo credit: © Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. “La bohème”, as the archetypal verismo opera, tends to resist stagings that take it much beyond the confines of nineteenth-century Paris, and indeed non-naturalistic approaches to the work. (Audiences tend to resist them too.) The two most successful in London recently have been John Copley’s recently retired version at the Royal Opera House – {…}

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Opéra National de Paris 2021-22 Review: Wagner’s Parsifal

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(Credit: Vincent Pontet / ONP) The week Rafael Nadal lifted his trophy for an unprecedented 14th victory at the Roland Garros tennis tournament in Paris, the opera public attending Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” at the Opéra National de Paris at the Bastille saw tenor Simon O’Neill triumphantly raise a supersized Holy Grail chalice with a shape that had an uncanny resemblance {…}

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Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Samson et Dalila

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(© 2022 ROH. Photograph by Clive Barda) Camille Saint–Saëns’ “Samson et Dalila” received its first new production – indeed first performance – at the Royal Opera House in nearly 20 years, replacing Elijah Moshinsky’s, which had a vintage of 1981 (before this reviewer was even born). It’s a tricky work to get right – traditionalist stagings feel uncomfortably Orientalist, sometimes {…}

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Adam Smith, Danielle de Niese, John Relyea & Sean Panikkar Lead English National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

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The English National Opera has announced its 2022-23 season featuring eight productions and seven operas. Leo Hussain conducts Puccini’s “Tosca” in a new production by Christof Loy. The cast will include Sinéad Campbell-Wallace, Adam Smith, and Noel Bouley. Performance Dates: Sept. 30–Nov. 4 2022 Gilbert & Sullivan’s “The Yeomen of the Guard” will include Anthony Gregory, Neal Davies, Alexandra Oomens, Heather {…}

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Jonas Kaufmann, Malin Byström, Lise Davidsen, Ailyn Pérez, Juan Diego Flórez Headline Royal Opera House’s 2022-23 Season

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The Royal Opera House has announced its 2022-23 season which will feature 20 new productions, nine world premieres, and three UK premieres. Our focus will be solely on the operatic productions the company will be showcasing. The season opens with Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” in a production by Kasper Holten. Constantin Trinks conducts a cast starring Luca Micheletti, Christopher Maltman, Maria {…}

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Royal Opera House Announces Major Cast Change for ‘Samson et Dalila’

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The Royal Opera House has announced a cast change for its upcoming production of “Samson et Dalila.” The company noted that SeokJong Baek will take over the role of Samson from Nicky Spence, who has withdrawn. Per an official press statement, Spence was still recovering from an injury earlier this year and was unable to take on the rigors that {…}

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Royal Opera House’s ‘La Bohème’ Headed to Cinemas this October

Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Announces Future Opening Productions

Opera North 2022 Review: Parsifal

Glyndebourne Festival Opera Review 2022: La Bohème

Opéra National de Paris 2021-22 Review: Wagner’s Parsifal

Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Samson et Dalila

Adam Smith, Danielle de Niese, John Relyea & Sean Panikkar Lead English National Opera’s 2022-23 Season

Jonas Kaufmann, Malin Byström, Lise Davidsen, Ailyn Pérez, Juan Diego Flórez Headline Royal Opera House’s 2022-23 Season

Royal Opera House Announces Major Cast Change for ‘Samson et Dalila’