Eugene Onegin Royal Opera House, London ★★ Michael Church Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin is the opera everyone loves. Ted Huffman’s new production comes heralded with this American director’s w...Read More
Andrea Chenier Royal Opera House ★★★★ The farewell to life written in 1794 by the French poet Andre Chenier is the most hauntingly dreadful poem ever penned. It was written on the day of his d...Read More
Lucia di Lammermoor Royal Opera House, London ★★★★★ 19.4.24 Hot on the heels of Aigul Akhmetshina’s brilliant Carmen for the ROH comes an even more breath-taking incarnation with the ...Read More
Carmen Royal Opera House, London ★★★★★ 5.4.24 Damiano Michieletto is a director dedicated to subverting clichéd classics with provocative surprises, but with his Carmen these surprises are...Read More
The Magic Flute Royal Opera House, London There are a few opera productions which never grow stale, they just get better, and so it is with director David McVicar’s version of The Magic Flute. It wa...Read More
Madama Butterfly Royal Opera House, London, ★★★★ Nobody could accuse Covent Garden of backwardness in virtue-signalling. They recently announced plans for trigger-warnings when murder, rape, a...Read More
Peter Grimes Royal Opera House, London ★★★★★ Michael Church Allan Clayton, John Tomlinson, Bryn Terfel, Jacques Imbrailo, James Gilchrist, John Graham-Hall – and all under the musical dire...Read More
I Solomon, Great Hall, Bart’s Hospital Quatuor pour la fin du temps, St Paul’s Cathedral New Dark Age, Royal Opera House, London With the whole world of classical music engaged in streaming, l...Read More
Musicians are at a precipice – but does the government care? Given a fanatical Brexiteer cabinet fixated on impossible dreams, and some stunningly inadequate ministers in charge of important a...Read More
Susanna, Linbury Theatre, London How to prepare for the coming storm? Eat well, keep fit, and enjoy the pleasures which will soon be off the menu. It can’t be long before opera houses close their d...Read More