Mar 28, 2024 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Photo, Ellie Kurttz Monday, March 25, 2024 The Coliseum, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers David Alden’s production of Janáček’s first operatic masterpiece, Jenůfa, for English National Opera – last seen at the Coliseum in 2016 – keeps its Czech setting but brings...
Jan 17, 2024 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Sunday, January 14, 2024 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Janáček’s Jenůfa, like his other operas, bears the paradox that, although the drama deals with some very flawed character traits, the music sweeps all before it to an uplifting conclusion,...
Jan 13, 2024 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews
Photo, Tristram Kenton Friday, January 12, 2024 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers The Royal Opera House’s first new production of the year is also the last that will be conducted by its outgoing music director, Sir Antonio Pappano...
Sep 17, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
György Ligeti (1923-2006) Sunday, September 17, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest Not many operas begin with a car-horn consort, but Ligeti’s wacky, weird and wonderful Le Grand Macabre does, a prelude to a surreal score that keeps the ear guessing and...
Sep 12, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania These few words are merely a means of documenting one of the absolute highlights of the Enescu Festival 2023 (whatever happens next), a concert performance of Benjamin Britten’s...
Aug 28, 2023 | Concert Reviews, Enescu Festival 2023, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Monday, August 28, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania In the first of their two appearances at this year’s Enescu Festival (the second is tomorrow, Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ Symphony) Zubin Mehta conducted Maggio...
