K·?a Kabanov· is, they say, Jan·?ek’s first mature opera — it comes a mere 20 years after his masterpiece, Jen?fa.
Month: January 2015
Peter Grimes in Nice
Nice’s golden winter light is not that of England’s North Sea coast. Nonetheless the OpÈra de Nice’s new production of Peter Grimes did much to take us there.
LA Opera Presents Figaro 90210
Figaro 90210 is Vid Guerrerio’s modern version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo DaPonte’s 1786 opera, The Marriage of Figaro.
Tristan und Isolde at the Wiener Staatsoper
David McVicar’s production of Wagner’s seminal music drama runs aground on the Cornish coast.
Songs of Night and Travel, Wigmore Hall
The coming of ‘Night’ brings darkness, shadows and mystery; sleep, dreams and nightmares; fancies, fantasies and passions.
Andrea ChÈnier, Royal Opera
Umberto’s Giordano’s Andrea ChÈnier, now at the Royal Opera House, is no more about history than Jesus Christ Superstar is about theology.