Opera North at Royal Festival Hall – Richard Farnes conducts Wagner’s Parsifal – with Toby Spence, Katarina Karnéus, Brindley Sherratt, Robert Hayward & Derek Welton.

Opera North at Royal Festival Hall – Richard Farnes conducts Wagner’s Parsifal – with Toby Spence, Katarina Karnéus, Brindley Sherratt, Robert Hayward & Derek Welton.

Jun 28, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Richard Farnes Sunday, June 26, 2022 Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed To judge from reports of Opera North’s semi-staging of Parsifal in Leeds at the beginning of this month, with costumes, a set, props and lighting, this...
The Grange Festival 2022 – Handel’s Tamerlano – Raffaele Pe, Paul Nilon, Patrick Terry, Angharad Lyddon; directed by Daniel Slater; conducted by Robert Howarth.

The Grange Festival 2022 – Handel’s Tamerlano – Raffaele Pe, Paul Nilon, Patrick Terry, Angharad Lyddon; directed by Daniel Slater; conducted by Robert Howarth.

Jun 20, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Saturday, June 18, 2022 The Grange, Northington, Alresford, Hampshire, England Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Handel’s opera Tamerlano (1724) has tended to be more respected than loved as a masterpiece, given how comparatively infrequently it is performed. But a...
The MET Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), and Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre/Goerke, Jovanovich, Owens.

The MET Orchestra @ Carnegie Hall – Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Richard Strauss’s Don Juan, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres), and Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre/Goerke, Jovanovich, Owens.

Jun 17, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Since 1992, the Met Orchestra has been performing an annual series of concerts at Carnegie Hall. This spectacular program got off to an electrifying start with a...
First-night review at Royal Opera House: Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – Lianna Haroutounian, Freddie De Tommaso, Patricia Bardon, Lucas Meachem – conducted by Dan Ettinger.

First-night review at Royal Opera House: Moshe Leiser & Patrice Caurier’s production of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly – Lianna Haroutounian, Freddie De Tommaso, Patricia Bardon, Lucas Meachem – conducted by Dan Ettinger.

Jun 15, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews

Tuesday, June 14, 2020 Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Even before curtain-up, the seventh revival of this production of Puccini’s “Japanese tragedy” has generated some media attention. In consultation with various Japanese...
The Metropolitan Opera – Jonathan Miller’s production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – Ben Bliss, Golda Schultz, Christian Van Horn, Raehann Bryce-Davis; conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

The Metropolitan Opera – Jonathan Miller’s production of Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress – Ben Bliss, Golda Schultz, Christian Van Horn, Raehann Bryce-Davis; conducted by Susanna Mälkki.

Jun 5, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

“Raehann Bryce-Davis as Baba the Turk and Ben Bliss as Tom Rakewell in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress” Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Friday, June 3, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski...