Jennifer France

LA Phil Reveals 2026/27 Walt Disney Concert Hall Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Mar 17, 2026

LA Phil President & CEO Kim Noltemy has unveiled the 2026/27 LA Phil season at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The season features figures including Esa-Pekka Salonen, who takes up his newly established role of Creative Director.

Interview: 'It Has To Be Fresh”: Director and Choreographer Lynne Hockney on Reviving Sir Peter Hall's Iconic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 22, 2025

Celebrated choreographer and director Lynne Hockney has been involved in Sir Peter Hall’s iconic version of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne since 2001. Now playing for the first time in the venue’s Autumn season, the production has been revived regularly since its premiere in 1981, bringing Shakespeare’s enchanting story of magic and mayhem to life. BroadwayWorld spoke to Hockney about her long association with the production, Sir Peter Hall’s enduring vision and how no one involved in the production is more important than anyone else.

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 20, 2025

Sir Peter Hall's iconic production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream has achieved legendary status since its premiere in 1981. In 2025, it has lost none of its magic, with the Glyndebourne audience still wide-eyed at the visual feast on stage.

Review: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, Opera Holland Park
by Gary Naylor - Jul 22, 2025

Jennifer France gives everything in a role demanding bel canto singing and bloody revenge

Review: COSÌ FAN TUTTE, Royal Opera House
by Franco Milazzo - Jul 8, 2024

Has opera found its own Ivo van Hove? Jan Philipp Gloger’s radical production of Così fan tutte continues until 10 July.

Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE Returns To The Royal Opera House
by Stephi Wild - Jun 5, 2024

International soprano Golda Schultz will make her much anticipated Royal Opera debut as Fiordiligi in Jan Philipp Gloger's witty production of Mozart's Così fan tutte, which will return from Wednesday 26 June – Wednesday 10 July 2024.  

The London Philharmonic Orchestra Reveals 2024/25 London Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 16, 2024

Discover the upcoming 2024/25 season of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Expect a line-up of world-renowned conductors and soloists, showcasing a diverse repertoire of classical music.

Review: JEPHTHA, Royal Opera House
by Alexander Cohen - Nov 9, 2023

300 years have passed since Jephtha, Handel’s Greek tragedy-infused oratorio, was heard at Covent Garden. Now a lustrous new production helmed by artistic director Oliver Mears begs the question: is it a lost classic? Or one to consign to the history books?

Photos: Inside Rehearsal For Handel's JEPHTHA at the Royal Opera House
by Stephi Wild - Oct 24, 2023

Rehearsal images have been released for The Royal Opera’s new production of Handel’s final masterpiece Jephtha, which opens for six performances on the main stage at Covent Garden on Wednesday 8 November 2023.  Check out the photos here!

VIDEO: Watch A Spooky Tour of The Royal Opera House
by Blair Ingenthron - Oct 22, 2023

Watch a spooky tour complete with opera ghost stories in this video from the Royal Opera House here!

Review: BBC PROM 36: A SPACE ODYSSEY, Royal Albert Hall
by Louise Penn - Aug 12, 2023

This Prom showcased the best of the avant garde in contemporary classical music: entertaining, bold, radical and full of drama. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were conducted by Edward Gardner with aplomb and determination, while the three choirs and two soloists left the capacity audience in delighted appreciation.

The Royal Opera House Reveals 2023/24 Season
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2023

The Royal Opera House has announced its 2023/24 Season, unveiling a bold programme of thrilling new work, UK premieres and much-loved revivals, alongside the biggest national learning programme in our history, exciting new regional partnerships, and a host of daytime events, behind the scenes tours, exhibitions and artistic Insights at our home in the heart of Covent Garden. 

Conductor Christoph Altstaedt On Opera North's New Year Celebrations In Huddersfield And Hull
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 16, 2022

German conductor Christoph Altstaedt returns to the Orchestra of Opera North for a pair of traditional Viennese Whirl concerts to celebrate New Year, at Huddersfield Town Hall on 30 December and Hull City Hall on New Year's Eve, 31 December, with soprano Jennifer France as guest soloist.

Opera North Brings Opera To Venues Across The North This Winter
by A.A. Cristi - Dec 13, 2022

Exploring themes of love, loss and laughter, Opera North Announces Its Winter Productions

Black Friday: Save up to 40% on IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE at the London Coliseum
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Nov 29, 2022

Tickets from just £25 for It's A Wonderful Life at the London Coliseum

Review: IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, London Coliseum
by Gary Naylor - Nov 27, 2022

Opera based on much loved 1946 film offers a vision of a town without music, without joy, without love and, in doing so, compels us to value what we have - a moral shared by everyone in the house, but not outside it.

The ENO Presents The UK Premiere & Operatic Adaptation of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
by Stephi Wild - Oct 31, 2022

This November, opening the festive season at the London Coliseum, the English National Opera (ENO) presents the highly anticipated UK premiere of It's a Wonderful Life. Composed by Jake Heggie in 2016 with the libretto by Gene Scheer, this is an operatic adaptation of the 1946 Frank Capra Christmas classic film, sung in English.

London Philharmonic Orchestra Label Releases Tippett's Opera THE MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE in September
by Stephi Wild - Jun 28, 2022

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) Label will release Tippett's opera The Midsummer Marriage on Friday 23 September – the first commercially released recording of the work in over 50 years.

BWW Review: THE MIDSUMMER MARRIAGE, Southbank Centre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Sep 26, 2021

In 1955 Michael Tippett introduced his first opera The Midsummer Marriage to a grey, post-war society desperate for some joy and optimism. It has divided the critics, with detractors pointing to the awkward libretto and fans in raptures with the sumptuous score. It is certainly a huge piece for the London Philharmonic Orchestra's new Principal Conductor, Edward Gardner, to conduct as his debut. However, the result was enthralling.

BWW Review: THE CUNNING LITTLE VIXEN, Opera Holland Park
by Cheryl Markosky - Aug 1, 2021

Urban dwellers know that a fox swaggering the streets like she owns them is nothing unusual these days. The merging of town and country, and the question of whether the fox is invading human territory (or is it the other way round with humans claiming zones that really belong to foxes?) are particularly relevant themes in Opera Holland Park’s homes site in verdant and semi-feral parkland.