This revival of Jonathan Kent’s 2006 production of Tosca brings to an end the ROH’s ‘Italian Season’ in fine style.
Author: Greg
Un ballo in maschera at Royal Opera House
On the whole, I’d prefer the conspirators to be sitting on toilets…
Die schˆne M¸llerin at Wigmore Hall
Matthias Goerne and Christoph Eschenbach unite in a Schˆne M¸llerin of searing intensity.
Lohengrin at The Royal Opera, London
I first saw this production in Manchester in 1981: I loved it then and love it now, despite the present hero’s un-Heldentenor qualities when compared to the glorious Peter Hoffman…
John Mark Ainsley Sings Schubert at Jerwood Hall, London
Schubert’s music ‘suggests a rippling movement and by the side of the rippling a flowering: it has the variety and unsurprising naturalness of moving water and springing herb’ (Capell) and…