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... 
by Guy Rickards | Nov 29, 2024 | Drama, Music
Weston Hurt, David Kempster, ENO’s Rigoletto 2024 © Tristram Kenton English National Opera / Richard Farnes London Coliseum, October 30th 2024 Forty-two years old it may be, but Jonathan Miller’s splendid updating of Verdi’s great opera to a 1950s mafia family still... 
by Music Editor | Nov 27, 2021 | Music
By Robert Thicknesse How do you turn a Hammer horror into a tragedy? It confronts every director of Verdi’s take on Shakespeare. Part of it is that the mid-19th century had such different ideas of drama (and of Shakespeare) from us, another that Verdi (and his... 
by Tom Sutcliffe | Mar 22, 2019 | Music
Misfortune cookies The Royal Opera has sold this production expensively and successfully not because of the work itself, however interesting (and it really is), but because of Anna Netrebko and Jonas Kaufmann as Leonora and Alvaro. Nobody likes Christof Loy’s muddled...