King County on Thursday announced $20 million in federal and state relief funds to help support arts and entertainment venues, many of which closed last year at the onset of the COVID-19 pan…
Grange Park Opera's Theatre in the Woods continues to evolve, now boasting a contiguous colonnade as well as separate 'lavatorium rotundum' that
Grange Park Opera's exquisite Theatre in the Woods turns receiving house for a work only previously seen in concert performance at Moscow's
Opera Holland Park has long specialised in the reclamation of verismo operas and they don't come grander than Isabeau, which combines a
This is the second new production of Grange Park Opera's 2018 season and the theatre itself continues to excite. Exhibiting good sightlines
The not always sophisticated humour of Fiona Show's thrice-seen production of The Marriage of Figaro is made to feel positively classy in
Carmen has always been a mutable opera and the Royal Opera has lately favoured both a traditionally costumed staging by Francesca Zambello
Forced to dispense with unaffordable innovation, English National Opera repeats another of its classic Jonathan Miller productions, last seen only two years
Widely seen in the US since 2015 and now receiving its European premiere, Daniel Schnyder's opera is a classical-jazz fusion which tilts
Staged as part of ENO Studio Live, a series of studio events officially designed to give staff directors and chorus members greater
After a brief tour, Ravi Shankar's final piece of East-West crossover, billed tendentiously as his only opera, opens the UK's largest festival
Wasfi Kani is one of Britain's feistiest opera bosses " famous, even notorious, for leading from the front. But our first meeting
Partly owing to late cast changes this third revival of Nicholas Hytner's production of Don Carlo, first seen in 2008, is dominated
When in 2014 ENO brought in Christopher Alden's single-set Rigoletto, it was assumed that Jonathan Miller's vintage Mafiosi production had had its day.
Hackney Empire, London, October 17, then touring until November 20. PN October 17: Joining Handel and Bach on ETO's national tour is a real rarity, an Austrian's take on a Venetian…
Coliseum, London: Fiona Shaw returns to revive her strenuous 2011 production. More worrying than the wealth of contextualising stage business is a muddled visual concept which sets the actio…
Royal Opera House, London: With ultra-serious Verdi productions running at London's biggest houses, this determinedly buoyant revival of a Rossini evergreen could not present a greater …
Coliseum, London: David Alden returns to English National Opera with a deracinated Otello that moves the action forward to the 1920s, suggested by Jon Morrell's period costumes. His not…
Royal Opera House, London: This is the seventh revival of a staging that threatens to become as much of a fixture as was Jonathan Miller's English National Opera production. David McVic…
Royal Opera House, London: A safety-first season-opener unveiled as long ago as 1984, this classic show returns in a revival directed by Andrew Sinclair. Psychologically crude, it remains un…
Royal Opera House, London: This minimalist international co-production is, oddly, Daniele Abbado's first show for Covent Garden. Previously seen at La Scala, Milan, its earnest austerit…
Coliseum, London: Has Nicholas Hytner's famous 1980s production, serially mothballed only to be revived 'one last time', finally reached the end of the road? The blue wigs, gi…
Arcola, Tent, London: Illness torpedoed last year's intended UK premiere of The Sound of a Voice, Philip Glass's 2003 show comprising two one-act, two-character music theatre setti…
Holland Park, London: With Falstaff stagings positively ubiquitous this year, director Annelise Miskimmon - recently appointed to a prestigious position with Danish National Opera - is not a…
Opera Holland Park, London: Re-imagined as a critique of Victorian imperialism on its last outing at Opera Holland Park in 2006, Cosi's 18th-century frocks are back and the essential ar…