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Opera

July 2024

  • Richard Macnutt was a founding member of the editorial board of the New Berlioz Edition, which sought to catalogue the composer’s entire works, a project finally completed in 2005

    Other lives
    Richard Macnutt obituary

  • Elizabeth Karani (Galatea), centre, in Acis and Galatea by G. F. Handel @ Opera Holland Park. Directed by Louise Bakker. Conductor, Michael Papadopoulos. (Opening 19-07-2024) ©Tristram Kenton 07-24 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Acis and Galatea review – a hectic take on Handel’s perfectly formed confection

  • Alison Langer as Nedda with David Butt Philip, both in fancy dress, him with clown makeup pulling her seemingly violently as the brutish Canio, in Pagliacci

    The week in classical: Il segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci; Spring Snow; Giorgi Gigashvili – review

  • Richard Burkhard in Il Segreto di Susanna.

    Il Segreto di Susanna/Pagliacci review – a double whammy of sexual jealousy

  • Sonata for Broken Fingers review – chamber opera of Stalin’s terror fails to grip

  • The week in classical: Double Bryn Terfel; Siwan Rhys; Bozzini Quartet; My Beloved Man – review

  • New Year review – Blake’s 7, redemption and rap as Birmingham Opera Company turn to Tippett

  • Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno review – imaginative staging transforms Handel’s oratorio

  • Ernani review – sterling singing triumphs over Verdi’s implausible plot

  • Black- and Asian-led take on Wagner in Midlands aims to open up opera access

  • The week in classical: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pekka Kuusisto & Norwegian Chamber Orchestra: DSCH; Camerata RCO – review

  • Janáček: The Excursions of Mr Brouček album review – eccentric opera has sparkle and muscle

  • James Loughran obituary

  • Edgar review – Puccini was right, his biggest flop is a dud

June 2024

  • Henry Waddington, Madison Leonard & Grant Doyle (standing) with Joshua Hopkins & Christine Rice in Un giorno di regno opens Garsinggton Opera 29.06.24 photo credit Richard Hubert Smith

    Un Giorno di Regno review – fizzing revival of Verdi’s failed comedy

  • Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen and Louise Alder in Giulio Cesare at Glyndebourne

    The week in classical: Giulio Cesare; Così fan tutte; Siegfried/Götterdämmerung – review

  • The cast stand under a tree with huge signs bearing words like Allegria, Fedelta, Comodo, Piacer

    Così fan Tutte review – self-conscious staginess is surreal fun in beautifully sung revival

  • A force to be reckoned with … Rosie Aldridge as Baba the Turk and Adam Temple-Smith as Tom Rakewell in The Rake's Progress at the Grange festival, Northington, Alresford.

    The Rake’s Progress review – stripped back staging foregrounds the sadness

  • ‘Where do we want opera to be when we’re 100?’: how Glyndebourne is facing the future

  • The week in classical: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre; Paul Wee; Köln Concert – review

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