I tried. Honestly, I really made an effort. I read the synopsis twice before the performance at London’s Coliseum. I know the work of English
Marie-Henri Beyle, the French author who lived from 1783 to 1842, was a “romantic realist”. So, clearly of an oxymoronic bent and with an overactive
Lisbon’s Teatro Nacional de Säo Carlos, the country’s foremost opera house, is an understated gem – on my bucket list for years. It was built
Friday, 25th October, was World Opera Day, a collaboration among Opera America, Opera Europa and Opera Latinoamérica. Festivities at the annual Wexford Festival Opera, held
“Is this a handbag that I see before me”? Excellent question, Thane of Glamis. You can get around to the bloody dagger stuff later in
Hamlet isn’t brooding on the battlements in Denmark. He’s in the Hague; starring in a new production from Oper2Day, the Dutch “new energy from old
The key to Jules Massenet’s opera Manon – first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, in 1884 – is the portrayal of the young Manon Lescaut,
Knickers in Philadelphia were missing. AWOL. Not a shred. Potential disaster. In Sergei Prokofiev’s 1918 opera, The Love for Three Oranges, knickers are essential, the fulcrum
A defining Gala performance of George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess kicked off New York Metropolitan Opera Company’s Season at the Lincoln Center on Monday. But
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