(© Silvana Robert & Máximo Parpagnol) The Grange Festival today unveiled its 2026 season. This article only features opera events. Opera First up is Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” by director David Alden. Tim Mead makes his festival debut in the title role. Sarah Brady, Hugh Cutting, Jess Dandy, Zheng Jiang, James Atkinson, and Owen Willetts are among the cast. Christian Curnyn {…}
Welsh tenor Ryan Vaughan Davies has joined Keynote Artist Management for general management. This season, Davies returns to the Welsh National Opera and The Grange Festival. He will also appear in the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Gala with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and is set to make his Wexford Festival Opera debut in a future season. {…}
(Credit: Mark Brenner) For the second time in only a few months, I find myself reviewing a production I have seen before where I was initially very critical of what I perceived to be a weak production, creatively, but inexplicably having a change of heart the second time around. So as not to face accusations of hypocrisy or worse, senility; {…}
(Photo ©2024 Camilla Greenwell) In a recent interview with director Damiano Michieletto at the Venice production of “The Tales of Hoffmann,” he said: “At its heart it is a journey into fantasy. It is opera fantastique, after all!” One definition of the French word fantastique is: a term for a literary and cinematic genre and mode that is characterized by {…}
Tête à Tête, the U.K.’s “outlandish opera company,” has announced its wider 2022 season with events scheduled in London, Cornwall, and Newcastle ahead of the 15th iteration of Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival in Sept. 2022. In May, the company will present “Odysseys,” six brand-new mini-operas in which unexpected protagonists—from the metamorphosis of a butterfly to a zombie—embark on {…}