Author: Gary Hoffman

First seen in 2005, and since feted in London (several times), New York and Lithuania, Anthony Minghella’s cinematic production of Madame Butterfly remains a breath-taking visual banquet.

Carmen Lite: Singing shines in Syracuse Opera’s pocket-sized The Tragedy of Carmen

What do you get if you cross the sultry folk melodies of Greece, Spain and Italy with the formal repetitions of Baroque instrumental structures, and add a dash of the shady timbres and rhythmic litheness of jazz?

‘All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.’ The sentiments of the closing lines of Gerald Manley Hopkins’ sonnet, ‘No worst, there is none.

Britten’s War Requiem is one of the defining artistic works of
the twentieth century. Consummate artwork, religious ritual and prayer,
ceremonial commemoration, ideological political statement, public expression of
mourning, and private avowal of faith,

James Conway’s production of Monteverdi’s final masterpiece, L’incoronazione di Poppea was

Performances of Verdi’s Macbeth take shape and leave an overall impression from both individual and collective emphases.

For the final instalment of Welsh National Opera’s Tudor trilogy, Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, director