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Glyndebourne hits 90 with Bizet’s sultry crowd-pleaser. Elsewhere, a starry farewell to a much loved maestro, and the fight to save Welsh National Opera

The company are all multi-talented with perfect acting and dance skills plus being musicians to boot. Individually they shine, collectively they simply sparkle

The company are all multi-talented with perfect acting and dance skills plus being musicians to boot. Individually they shine, collectively they simply sparkle

MADAMA BUTTERFLY comes to Det. KGL. Teater in 2024. Performances run 25 February - 30 April 2024.

David Truslove reflects on Natalie Romaniw's performance in Ariadne auf Naxos at Garsington Opera.

In opera, as in so much high-budget entertainment, expectation management is half the battle. With its massive Greek Revival mansion, approached through miles of rolling parkland, The Grange Festival has the grandest setting of any of the summer festivals; and that might have something to do with why the opera served up there has so

When tears well up during stretches of Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s curious hybrid which you never expected to move you, something special's going on. The magic happened last night in an evening which I didn't anticipate equalling “the Carmelites experience” at Glyndebourne. But, in its very different way, it did, in terms of casting, conducting and a production (by Bruno Ravella) that wasn’t too interventionist but had some powerful ideas of its own.

Natalya Romaniw’s Ariadne shines in an unfussy production that is, at its best, breathtakingly effective and beautiful

An enterprising company pulls off its biggest challenge yet. Opera review by David Nice

An enterprising company pulls off its biggest challenge yet. Opera review by David Nice