New Year, Birmingham Opera Company, The Dream Tent: Fascinating revival of a bonkers but brilliant work Nicholas Kenyon 11 Jul 2024, 11:48am
Il trionfo del tempo e disinganno: Handel reimagined as a suburban psychodrama – with devastating results Nicholas Kenyon 8 Jul 2024, 12:33pm
Verdi’s Ernani is a ludicrous opera, but this performance is excellent fun Nicholas Kenyon 7 Jul 2024, 2:48pm
Un Giorno di Regno, Garsington: Verdi’s maligned comedy gets a dynamite makeover Claire Jackson 6 Jul 2024, 2:43pm
Edgar, Opera Holland Park: There’s no disguising the banality of Puccini’s early melodrama Nicholas Kenyon 3 Jul 2024, 12:49pm
The Rake’s Progress: A handsome new staging that brings out the opera’s pathos Nicholas Kenyon 24 Jun 2024, 2:05pm
Die Walküre, Longborough Festival Opera: A magnificently lucid staging that lets Wagner’s drama roar Nicholas Kenyon 19 Jun 2024, 12:00pm
Katya Kabanova, Grange Park Opera: a spare, tense reading of a deeply affecting score Nicholas Kenyon 17 Jun 2024, 12:13pm
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Garsington Opera: A production full of craft but short on warmth Ivan Hewett 17 Jun 2024, 11:44am
The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne: Danielle de Niese shines in a stunning, if jokey, production Nicholas Kenyon 10 Jun 2024, 11:56am
Tosca, The Grange Festival, review: brings out the hard-hitting violence of Puccini’s writing Nicholas Kenyon 9 Jun 2024, 2:30pm
The Daughter of the Regiment, Grange Park Opera, review: a production of unbridled joy Claire Jackson 9 Jun 2024, 2:00pm
The Coronation of Poppea, The Grange Festival: No one in this compelling opera escapes Monteverdi’s penetrating gaze Nicholas Kenyon 8 Jun 2024, 1:38pm
Blond Eckbert, Aldeburgh Festival: The 75th edition opens with a deliciously disturbing fairy-tale Claire Jackson 8 Jun 2024, 10:32am
Bryn Terfel, Grange Park Opera: The Welsh wonder triumphs in Gianni Schicchi Nicholas Kenyon 7 Jun 2024, 12:50pm
The Barber of Seville: No fuss, no frills – just a comic masterpiece, staged with heart-warming brio Nicholas Kenyon 5 Jun 2024, 12:43pm
The Magic Flute: A new production of Mozart staged with flair and fussiness Nicholas Kenyon 3 Jun 2024, 11:49am
Andrea Chénier: Antonio Pappano bows out by making a feeble opera fly Nicholas Kenyon 31 May 2024, 10:44am
Platée: A hugely enjoyable Love Island-style production that’s exactly what this cruel story deserves Ivan Hewett 30 May 2024, 1:20pm
Carmen: Glyndebourne returns with a gritty drama of sex and death Nicholas Kenyon 17 May 2024, 12:51pm
L’Olimpiade, Linbury Theatre: Forget Paris – Vivaldi’s Olympic drama has more propulsive energy than any Games Nicholas Kenyon 14 May 2024, 12:07pm
Le Nozze di Figaro, Komische Oper, Berlin, review: purists be damned – this is sensational Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s unforgettable, dream-like adaptation won’t please everyone – but it demands to be seen Nicholas Kenyon 28 Apr 2024, 11:47am
Zarqa Al Yamama, Riyadh: a bold attempt, but Saudi Arabia’s first grand opera falls flat Premiering in Riyadh, this international collaboration hinges on a strong Saudi narrative and is well sung, but the music lets it down Nicholas Kenyon 26 Apr 2024, 11:45am
Simon Boccanegra, Bridgewater Hall, review: the Hallé deliver a thrilling evening of Verdi Nicholas Kenyon 19 Apr 2024, 11:31am
Aci by the River, London Handel Festival: this voyage up the Thames is exactly what opera needs Nicholas Kenyon 11 Apr 2024, 1:07pm
Carmen: this stimulating new production could blossom with better musical direction Nicholas Kenyon 6 Apr 2024, 11:52am
La Gioconda, Salzburg Easter Festival, review: Anna Netrebko is past her best, but Pappano thrills Rupert Christiansen 28 Mar 2024, 2:10pm
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: cast illness hampers a restaging of Bartók that was perhaps doomed to fail Nicholas Kenyon 22 Mar 2024, 11:04am
Death in Venice: a magnificent, startlingly original staging of Britten’s enigmatic opera Nicholas Kenyon 8 Mar 2024, 11:33am
A Star Next to the Moon: a complex new opera superbly performed by a talented young cast Nicholas Kenyon 27 Feb 2024, 12:43pm
Cosi fan tutte as a classroom comedy? It’s not what Mozart had in mind Nicholas Kenyon 25 Feb 2024, 3:19pm