Il ritorno d’Ulisse, Garsington Opera at Wormsley
20th June 2026
Don Carlo, Grange Park Opera
15th June 2026
Natalya Romaniw makes her Royal Opera debut in the title role of Tosca this coming week. It may be a daunting prospect for any singer but the Swansea-born soprano feels the time is right and says she is more excited than nervous. “I used to watch performances at Covent Garden when I was a student…
November 24, 2022 by Mike Smith Welsh National Opera general director Aidan Lang has explained why the company has immediately pulled out of touring to Liverpool – and raised concerns further venue cancellations will follow. The move follows Arts Council of England announced a more than a third of its funding to the Cardiff-based touring company was…
Academy of Ancient Music (AAM) has unveiled plans for its 2022/23 season. The orchestra presents a year-long exploration of the environment and our place within it, entitled ‘Tis nature’s voice. The season includes performances at the Barbican, Milton Court Concert Hall, West Road Concert Hall in Cambridge and The Apex in Bury St Edmunds. Tues 4 Oct 2022…
Antony Hermus launched his 2022-23 season with his inaugural concert as Chief Conductor Designate ofthe Belgian National Orchestra on 9 September 2022 and returns to Opera North as Principal GuestConductor for new production of Ariadne auf Naxos (18 February – 24 March 2023) Conductor’s schedule this season includes world premieres of works by Unsuk Chin…
Britten Pears Arts today announce full casting details for The Rape of Lucretia. This new staging of Benjamin Britten’s unsparing chamber opera opens at Snape Maltings, Suffolk as part of its Britten Weekend on 29 and 30 October, before this new production is on stage at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House from 13-22 November….
Royal Opera House principal artist and Ukrainian baritone Yuriy Yurchuk will be joined by a host of international singers including Armenian soprano Anush Hovhannisyan and American soprano Alexandria Wregglesworth, accompanied by pianist Ed Batting, for an evening of world-class music in this special one-off fundraising concert. The night will feature a programme of much-loved arias…
The Grange Festival 2023 season sees four new productions (Così fan tutte, Orfeo ed Euridice / Dido and Aeneas and The Queen of Spades) by daring creative teams, with a blend of young, talented singers and established names, notably Dame Josephine Barstow as the Countess in The Queen of Spades. Continuing its cycle of operas…
As the headlines in the news have inevitably stoked an anti-Russian sentiment which is at risk of extending from the political decision-makers to the Russian people who too are their victims – and as episodes of censorship suggesting the erasure of all things Russian-related have repeatedly been pointed out in recent month – it is…
Annabel Arden’s 2012 production of La Boheme, now revived by Welsh National Opera for the second offering of its 2022 autumn season, gives its audience a largely straightforward telling of the doomed love affair of Mimi and Rodolfo. The only real “take” on the work is setting the opera in the early 20th century, perhaps…
Welsh National Opera was a groundbreaker in bringing Janáček’s operas to UK audiences, thanks to remarkable musical and artistic leadership in its younger days. Now, the company is sensibly building on the specialism of its music director Tomáš Hanus to introduce the works to new audience members. Thus, a short cycle of revivals ending with…
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