Daniel Oren News Today

There are all sorts of Christmas productions on in the West End but you will not do better than this

Sensational staging and great music sung with such passion, but are changing mores transforming how we see the sad clown and his wicked revenge?

Damiano Michieletto’s 2015 pairing of the two short operas returns for its third revival with a superb cast including Roberto Alagna, and carefully if sometimes solidly paced by Daniel Oren

Paul du Quenoy on a new production of Verdi’s “Aida” at the Arena di Verona.

Many undervalued national parks barely see any boots compared to the headliners we all know and love. These gems may be under your nose.

The sensational Freddie De Tommaso soars alongside Natalya Romaniw in a catch-it-while-you-can Tosca

With Freddie De Tommaso, Natalya Romaniw and Erwin Schrott in the lead roles this revival of Jonathan Kent’s sure-footed staging of Puccini’s opera is in very good hands

LIBBY PURVES: Clint Dyer, the first black director to do a major production of the play at the National, hints that his Othello has some innate dangerousness, alien even to his fellow soldiers.

Recordings of works by Julius Eastman and William Grant Still, as well as a new “La Traviata,” are among the highlights.

Atmospheric but ambiguous production, given extra weight by cast of rich voices. Opera review by Gavin Dixon