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.

The Met’s ‘La Traviata’ lean on glamour, rich in insight

 

Yevgeny Onegin in Warsaw

Mariusz Treli?ski’s staging of Tchaikovsky’s operatic masterpiece is visually fascinating but psychologically confusing

La belle au bois dormant, ThÈ‚tre de l’AthÈnÈe, Paris

 

Why bother?

 

Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Metropolitan Opera, New York

 

Orfeo at the Roundhouse, Royal Opera

The regal trumpets and sackbuts sound their bold herald and, followed by admiring eyes, the powers of state and church begin their dignified procession along a sloping walkway to assume their lofty positions upon the central dais.