When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

Being a British performer who can sing in Mandarin means Lavender, who teaches at London's Royal College of Music, has more Chinese than European students. To be allowed to oversee the piece's ...

It was nicely appropriate that one of the ovations on first night should be for conductor Jakub Hrusa, who was making his maiden appearance as the new music director of the Royal Opera House.

Guth’s symbolic, psychologically probing production seems more potent than ever with Hrusa at the helm. The musical directorship of the Royal Opera is, on this showing, in safe hands.

the impact he gets from the house orchestra is seared on the memory. The composer's first great score has its problems in a not always clear orchestration – later he went for extremes, which pose ...

This revival of Janáček’s earliest operatic masterpiece marks the first occasion on which Jakub Hrůša has conducted the Royal Opera following the announcement of his appointment as Antonio ...

It is more than two years since the Royal Opera announced the appointment of Jakub Hrůša as its next music director, succeeding Antonio Pappano after his record-breaking 22 years in the post.

It’s a mistake to dismiss Claus Guth’s production of Janacek’s Jenůfa as symbolically overwrought and interminably grey. Look closer and you’ll discover dualities and colour under ...

When Claus Guth’s new Royal Opera staging of Janáček’s opera Jenůfa emerged from the delays of the lockdown in 2021, it had a mixed reception. Taking away reference to the local ...

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King Charles has stepped out in Scotland today for a very special event taking place at Dumfries House in Ayrshire. Charles was all smiles as he joined Sir Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster ...