The singer’s return to Covent Garden is about to hit Australian cinema screens – this time minus the prosthetic boobs. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Covent Garden’s smart new Cav and Pag is headed south. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Nicole Car triumphs as Tatyana in Covent Garden's polished Kasper Holten revival.
The 11th-hour engagement will see Stagg sing the title roll in Luigi Rossi’s Orpheus in London this evening. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Royal Opera House’s pitch-perfect Mozart is worth a trip out in the rain. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
As Warners release his new studio recording of Aida, we go behind the scenes with the British maestro. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
With a toned down rape, it’s a wonder what all the fuss was about. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Michielotto’s new staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell raised plenty of hackles in London, but will it here? This week, social media pundits, the Twittersphere and even the venerable BBC have been abuzz with the latest operatic hiatus at the Royal Opera House. It seems the opening night audience for c new staging of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell raised plenty of hackles along with some unprecedented heckles during a graphic act of sexual violence during the Act III ballet. Yes, they booed DURING the performance, not just at the end as seems to be increasingly the case at the traditionally sedate London venue. The leadership team of Kasper Holten and Sir Antonio Pappano have, to my mind, offered a speedy and dignified defence of their artistic choices but that doesn’t seem to have extinguished the ardour of the UK’s anti-‘Regie’ brigade (for those new to the term: Regietheater is German for director’s theatre and is a term that refers to the modern practice of allowing a director freedom in devising the way a given opera or play is staged so that the creator’s original, specific intentions or stage directions be changed, together with major elements of geographical location, chronological situation, casting and plot). As it happens,…
Covent Garden’s latest production of Rossini’s Guillaume Tell offends with “nude rape” scene. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Sopranos Lauren Fagan and Kiandra Howarth are among 40 singers competing in the international opera competition. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Boris Godunov and Frankenstein stand out among Covent Garden’s showings for 2015 and 2016. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
Young Australian soprano is called up by Royal Opera House to reprise her Onegin triumph. Continue reading Get unlimited digital access from $4 per month Subscribe Already a subscriber? Log in
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