This production is particularly close to my heart – not only because of my love for opera but also because it celebrates one of Malta’s most important composers, Carlo Diacono. L’Alpino ...

The Royal Opera ©2024 Tristram Kenton I was disappointed ... Moths and beetles climb the walls of the opera house proscenium. The Witch’s house, usually a kind of elaborate peasant hut with ...

This ballet is visually gorgeous – but the story is lost in the whirl of movement. By Zuzanna Lachendro The Royal Opera House returns to John Cranko’s romantic tragedy Onegin for the ballet’s 60th ...

Cranko took the predictable love melodrama - I want you, I don't, actually I do, well now I don’t - and turned it into a full ...

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.

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 ...

The warmth and majesty of Verdi’s score creates pictures within the cold exteriors, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Daniel Oren revelling in both the ceremonial grandeur and the ...

Though the expanded Royal Opera Chorus (director William Spaulding) and Orchestra (leader Vasko Vassilev) gave of their excellent best, this revival felt like a work-in-progress of a dauntingly ...

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 ...