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Three fine performances give Andrei Serban’s 1984 production of Turandot a new lease of life at the ROH. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
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Royal Opera Festen review: Unforgettable perfection, the best new opera for years
Danish film Festen inspires a new masterpiece at the Royal Opera House that packs family secrets, abuse and racism into a gripping 90 minutes with no interval. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Verdi’s Aida intriguingly updated by the Royal Opera House
Transplanting a tale of ancient Egypt to a modern-day military dictatorship is a difficult and rather dubious task, but Robert Carsen’s production of Aida gets away with it, showing that power, passion and patriotism have not changed much in four millennia. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Triumphant Drama in Janáček’s Jenůfa at the Royal Opera House
The dark plot of Janáek’s Jenufa is convincingly played by an excellent cast at the Royal Opera House. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Opera singer Danielle De Niese says don’t cancel the Merry Widow
A famous opera singer is urging Christmas Day TV viewers to tune in to see her new production of The Merry Widow, which she has transformed into a laugh-out-loud operetta. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »New Zealand couple’s fairytale: Singing La Boheme at the Royal Opera House
Married Kiwi couple Amina and Pene were brought together by opera, and now its taken them to the stage at Covent Garden Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Puccini’s Tosca still thrills at the Royal Opera House
The great Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died on 29 November 1924 and the Royal Opera House continues its celebrations of this centenary with a triumphant 17th revival of Jonathan Kent’s glorious production of Tosca. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Magnificent Mayhem in The Tales of Hoffmann at the Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House has produced a glorious, all-singing, all-dancing, totally bizarre production of Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffman. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »An Elixir of Love Goes Astray at the English National Opera
The new ENO production of Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore has many good points but is not as comic as it ought to be. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
Read More »Mixed Fortunes for Beethoven’s Fidelio at the Royal Opera House
The magnificent music in Beethoven’s only opera is poorly served by an over-zealous director in the current Covent Garden production. Daily Express :: Entertainment Feed
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