Review: Il trovatore (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
This new Il trovatore may not sit well with the purist, but this is one of the most interesting productions of the year.
This new Il trovatore may not sit well with the purist, but this is one of the most interesting productions of the year.
A bracing Turandot with Alfano’s extended completion for the first time on disc.
Twelve newly commissioned pieces of music – including one by Andrew Lloyd Webber - will frame the Coronation of King Charles.
Robert Carsen’s chilling update ditches pyramids for resonances of modern warfare. Catch his ROH production when it screens in Australian cinemas in November.
Seven productions from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden form the centrepiece of the new Palace Opera & Ballet season.
Robert Carsen's new Aida and Simone Young conducting Salome are just two of the highlights.
This month’s musical journey takes us from the choir stalls of Westminster Abbey to an eerily haunted music hall and winds up with a legendary blast from the past.
Kratzer’s superbly cast, split personality Fidelio lets in the Enlightenment.
Australian director Elijah Moshinsky, who had a distinguished career in opera, has died in London at the age of 75 after contracting COVID-19.
The queen of bel canto turns her attention to Donizetti's rival queens.
Superbly sung and beautifully acted, even if the concept remains somewhat impenetrable.
Kaufmann is a vital, virile Otello but perhaps the biggest star is the orchestra under Antonio Pappano.
The best Bernstein since Lenny himself, and arguably even better.