by Guy Rickards | Oct 10, 2026 | Awards, Music
Christine Rice (Sister Helen Prejean, left) receiving the Best New Opera Production Award for Dead Man Walking from Amanda Holloway (Critics’ Circle), with (left to right) Bob Holland (executive producer), Lucy Nelson (producer). Photograph (c) Sophia Evans,... 
by Colin Clarke | Oct 3, 2026 | Music, Uncategorized
Director Evgeny Titov makes his Covent Garden debut with this new Parsifal, a vision made visceral via Etienne Pluss’ sets and D. M. Wood’s lighting. ‘Dystopian’ seems the mot juste for Titov’s take on Wagner’s Bühnenweihfestspiel. Acts One and Three take place in... 
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 Guy Rickards | Jul 21, 2026 | Drama, Music
Alina Wunderlin, David Butt Philip, Rachel Wills-Sørensen in Laurent Pelly’s new production, (c) Tristam Kenton Glyndebourne Festival Opera / Robin Ticciati Glyndebourne Theatre, July 19, 2026 Change—even when thwarted—is the bedrock upon which Ariadne auf... 
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...