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The Queen of Spades at Lyric Opera of Chicago

If obsession is paramount to knowing the dramatic and musical textile of Tchaikovsky’s opera The Queen of Spades, the present manufacturing at Lyric Opera of Chicago succeeds excellently in portraying such areas of the peoples psyche.

WNO revival of Carmen in Cardiff

Unveiled by Welsh National Opera final autumn, this Carmen happens to be in its very very first revival. Initial manager Jo Davies has abandoned image postcard Spain and sun-drenched vistas for pictures of grey, metropolitan squalor someplace in modern-day Latin America.

Lise Davidsen ‘rescues’ Tobias Kratzer’s Fidelio during the Royal Opera home

Making Fidelio – Beethoven’s paean to freedom, constancy and fidelity – an emblem associated with the republican nature of this French Revolution is unproblematic, regardless of the opera’s censor-driven setting that is‘Spanish.

A sunny, insouciant Così from English Touring Opera

Beach balls and parasols. Strolls over the strand. Cocktails regarding the terrace. Laura Attridge’s brand brand new manufacturing of CosГ¬ fan tutte which launched English Touring Opera’s 2020 spring tour during the Hackney Empire, is just a sunny, insouciant and sometimes downright silly event.

A wonderful role first for Natalya Romaniw in ENO’s revival of Minghella’s Madama Butterfly

The artistic beauty of Anthony Minghella’s 2005 manufacturing of Madama Butterfly, now going back to the Coliseum phase because of its 7th revival, still takes breath that is one’s. Read More