The terrible twosome who founded OperaGlass Works will stop at nothing to attain their artistic purpose.
Marking its 50th anniversary, the Academy of Ancient Music scintillates with a riveting semi-staged performance of Handel’s Orlando.
An ambitious new production of Handel’s “Rinaldo” was a seamless melding of reality and myth.
Glimmerglass Festival, with its incredible offerings on the idyllic Lake Otsego, is more of a “Glimmerglut”. A true boon in the boondocks.
Accompanied by cacophonous sound, a bright flash and clouds of cough inducing smoke, Itch burst onstage.
Savonlinna Opera Festival is to be lauded for its total failure to concern itself with twenty-first century “elf and safety”. The floors of Olavinlinna castle are perilously uneven.
This week’s letters discuss Giorgia Meloni’s vision for Europe, Verdi’s Traviata and Huw Edwards.
As expected, Maestra Keri-Lynn Wilson masterfully set off Verdi’s musical fireworks at the Royal Opera House.
The genius of English Concert’s approach was to make the horn part of Sifare’s conflicted disposition.
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