by Claudia Pritchard | Sep 20, 2026 | Music
Lisette Oropesa in the title role and Emily d’Angelo as Ruggiero in Alcina/ Photo: Ian Hippolyte Royal Opera/David Bates Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 15 September 2026 Like the Venus flytrap in her greenhouse, the eponymous enchantress Alcina snaps up the... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Sep 17, 2026 | Music
Waterperry Opera/Charles Court Opera/David Eaton Wilton’s Music Hall, London E1, 14 September Donizetti’s evergreen opera The Elixir of Love moves from sunny Italy to English apple country in Waterperry Opera’s effervescent production, first seen in the Oxfordshire... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Jul 2, 2026 | Music
Lisette Oropesa as Elvira in Bellini’s ‘I puritani’. Photo: Tristram Kenton Verdi’s Il trovatore is said to need only the four best singers in the world, but pretty much the same goes for the earlier composer Vincenzo Bellini’s I... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Jul 1, 2026 | Music
The crew of the Indomitable, at Glyndebourne Festival Opera. Photo: Tristram Kenton Nelson’s flagship,Victory, and the stage at Glyndebourne measure about the same, port to starboard – roughly 15 metres. So the three decks of the 18th- century man-of-war Indomitable... 
by Claudia Pritchard | Jun 5, 2026 | Music, Uncategorized
Madison Leonard walks unseen into her own party in La traviata at Garsington Opera. Photo: Clive Barda Verdi La traviata Garsington Opera/ Douglas Boyd Verdi’s La traviata offers us three characters in one, all sung by the same soprano. Violetta is the classy daring...