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THE CRITICS’ CIRCLE MUSIC AWARDS FOR 2025
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, 2026 The…
Hrůša excels in the new RBO Parsifal
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…
RBO’s Alcina works a charm
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…
The Elixir of Love is a heady brew
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…
