The latest reviews and critic recommendations from Opera.
The Met performed the season’s first TALES OF HOFFMANN (LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN), by Jacques Offenbach, with libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carre, also a Sher production, and it was a different story.
Deservedly still Tchaikovsky’s most celebrated opera, Eugene Onegin astounds with angelic music that never ceases to amaze.
A match made in heaven? Girl meets boy.
What did our critic think of LUCIA DE LAMMERMOOR at Opera In The Heights?
“What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?” More often than not, when Shakespeare is adapted into different formats, the text is largely lost but the story remains - not so in this case.
Heavily reliant on strong vocals
Mozart, music and mayhem in a tale of an outfoxed aristocrat brought down to earth
In total transparency, I was apprehensive about this one because I’ve always associated opera with being outdated and inaccessible.
The Union Avenue Opera completes its 30th season with a lavish production of Into the Woods.
The term has become familiar and beloved to opera lovers since the late 19th century.
Opera Holland Park close out another acclaimed season with a rollicking Yeomen Of The Guard.
Saying that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s LE PROPHETE is long is like calling the Grand Canyon a pothole: It doesn’t begin to describe the experience, though they both sometimes have a rocky landscape.
Elephants? No elephants here.
If you want to see an opera based on Shakespeare’s “Romeo & Juliet,” head for Gounod’s version of the piece.
An opera doesn’t have to be totally obscure to catch Will Crutchfield’s bel canto eye—but it couldn’t hurt.
Directed by John Caird and, for this revival, Katherine M.
Opera Holland Park’s staging of Handel’s beloved Acis and Galatea is a smashing success that finds just the right balance between musical finesse and tongue-in-cheek comedy.
Opera Holland Park delivers two short pieces - an ideal introduction to the form's unique capacity to bring emotional weight to any story
There’s a singular simplicity in Madama Butterfly that draws in audiences year after year, decade by decade like moths to a flame: a man loves and leaves a woman; she gives up everything for him.
Has opera found its own Ivo van Hove? Jan Philipp Gloger’s radical production of Così fan tutte continues until 10 July.
Saint Louis’ Union Avenue Opera is celebrating the start of it’s thirtieth year with a superb production of Bizet’s Carmen! (Thirty years—that’s twenty-nine seasons.
A curious opera that is beautiful and ugly all at once
Fronted by some fresh faces, Jonathan Kent’s cinematic take on the Puccini masterwork Tosca returns for its seventeenth run at Covent Garden.
This is my very first time at the Polish National Opera and as we all know, first times can be overrated.
This restaging of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR is a fitting tribute to Cape Town Opera's 25 years of artistic excellence.
