May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, May 13, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s operatic adaptation of Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival, has arrived at the Met, and their daring...
May 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Monday, May 16, 2022 Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Imeneo was Handel’s penultimate opera, reaching the stage in 1740, just one year before he composed Messiah. But even as his fortunes as a composer of opera...
Apr 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Sunday, April 24, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin With The Queen of Spades/Pique Dame (Opus 68, to a libretto after Pushkin’s novella), the Berliner Philharmoniker and Kirill Petrenko completed their Tchaikovsky triptych of operas this...
Apr 20, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Photograph, Clive Barda Tuesday, April 19, 2022 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This first revival (directed by Peter Relton) of David Alden’s 2018 Royal Opera production of Wagner’s Lohengrin is unmissable. For a start, the staging...
Mar 18, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Thursday, March 17, 2022 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed Peter Grimes, the loner, visionary fisherman, redeemed the fortunes of the conscientious objector Benjamin Britten, when the former first strode the opera stage just after...
Feb 24, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 The Coliseum, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed The first thing you’re immediately aware of in Jamie Manton’s new production of Janáček’s life-and-deathopera is just how vast the Coliseum stage is. True, Tom Scutt’s designs fill the...