Mario Chang, Lauren Fagan, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Annemarie Kremer & Lea Shaw Lead Scottish Opera’s 2025-26 Season

The Scottish Opera has announced its 2025-26 season. The season opens with a double bill of Ravel’s “L’heure espagnole” and Walton’s “The Bear.” Alexandra Cravero conducts the production by Jacopo Spirei. Lea Shaw, Jamie MacDougall, Daniel Barrett, Edward Jowle, and Luvo Maranti star in Ravel’s production, and Chloe Harris, Daniel Barrett, and Edward Jowle star in Walton’s opera. Performance Dates: {…}

Nov 13, 2024

Alexandra Lowe & Alessandro Fisher Headline The Mozartists’ ‘1775 – A Retrospective’

The Mozartists will present “1775 – A Retrospective” at Cadogan Hall on Jan. 29, 2025. The showcase will feature a scene from Georg Anton Benda’s “Medea” as well as arias by Mozart including ““Si mostra la sorte”, K.209; “Con ossequio, con rispetto”, K.210; and “Voi avete un cor fedele”, K.217. There will be an aria from “La Danza” by Hasse,” {…}

Nov 21, 2023

Glyndebourne Opera Festival 2023-24 Review: Don Giovanni

© Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. Photo: Richard Hubert Smith Trigger warning: Mozart aficionados, look away now. One might think Wolfgang Amadeus to be somewhat overrated, and the fact that he was hugely prolific, widely acknowledged to be a prodigy and is almost globally asserted to have been a genius, does little by way of endearing his music to my ear. I {…}

Sep 21, 2023

Glyndebourne Unveils Fall 2023 Slate

Glyndebourne has unveiled its fall 2023 slate. Here is a rundown of the opera and vocal performances. First up is “L’Elisir d’amore.” The opera wills tar Mariam Battistelli, Filipe Manu, Theodore Platt, and Tiziano Bracci. Adam Hickox conducts the production, which will be directed by Annabel Arden. Performance Dates: Nov. 11 – Dec. 1, 2023 Also on the slate is “Don {…}

Mar 11, 2023

Giselle Allen, Sébastien Guèze & Robert Hayward Lead Opera Norths’ 2023-24 Season

Opera North has announced its 2023-24 season, which will be split into autumn and spring. Henry Waddington, Helen Évora, Isabelle Peters, Egor Zhuravskii, Richard Burkhard, and Tichina Vaughn lead Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Garry Walker and Martin Pickard conduct the production by Jo Davies. Performance Dates: Sept. 28-Nov. 18, 2023 Andri Björn Róbertsson, Anna Dennis, James Laing, Patrick Terry, Callum Thorpe, Xavier Hetherington, and {…}

Mar 23, 2022

Royal Opera House 2021-22 Review: Peter Grimes

(Credit: ROH 2022 (c) Yasuko Kageyam) Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes,” an opera of community disaster, has lately belonged in London to Edward Gardner in the pit and Stuart Skelton in the title role, both searingly brilliant. Deborah Warner’s new production, headed by tenor Allan Clayton, offers a vivid and contemporary alternative vision of the work that deserves to run and {…}

Oct 22, 2020

Royal Opera House Announces ‘Meet The Young Artists Week 2020’

(Credit: © Nick Hufton) The Royal Opera House Covent Garden has announced “Meet the Young Artists Week 2020,” which will take place from Oct. 26 – Oct. 31, 2020. The Jette Parker Young Artists program is a two-year apprenticeship at the ROH, that involves young talents just starting their musical careers. Four new talents joined the program this year including {…}

Sep 28, 2020

Sir Simon Keenlyside, Chen Reiss & Sir Bryn Terfel Lead Royal Opera House Fall 2020 Program

(Credits: Opéra National de Paris official website / Chen Reiss official website / Harlequin Agency official website) The Royal Opera House Covent Garden has announced its fall program schedule. For the purposes of this article, we will focus only on vocal works. “4/4” is an evening of opera that has been curated by Director of Opera Oliver Mears and features {…}