Island of Dreams, Grange Park Opera: a quixotic, overly literal take on The Tempest Nicholas Kenyon 12 Jul 2024, 10:41am
New Year, Birmingham Opera Company, The Dream Tent: Fascinating revival of a bonkers but brilliant work Nicholas Kenyon 11 Jul 2024, 11:48am
Il trionfo del tempo e disinganno: Handel reimagined as a suburban psychodrama – with devastating results Nicholas Kenyon 8 Jul 2024, 12:33pm
Verdi’s Ernani is a ludicrous opera, but this performance is excellent fun Nicholas Kenyon 7 Jul 2024, 2:48pm
Un Giorno di Regno, Garsington: Verdi’s maligned comedy gets a dynamite makeover Claire Jackson 6 Jul 2024, 2:43pm
Edgar, Opera Holland Park: There’s no disguising the banality of Puccini’s early melodrama Nicholas Kenyon 3 Jul 2024, 12:49pm
The Rake’s Progress: A handsome new staging that brings out the opera’s pathos Nicholas Kenyon 24 Jun 2024, 2:05pm
Die Walküre, Longborough Festival Opera: A magnificently lucid staging that lets Wagner’s drama roar Nicholas Kenyon 19 Jun 2024, 12:00pm
Katya Kabanova, Grange Park Opera: a spare, tense reading of a deeply affecting score Nicholas Kenyon 17 Jun 2024, 12:13pm
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Garsington Opera: A production full of craft but short on warmth Ivan Hewett 17 Jun 2024, 11:44am
The Merry Widow, Glyndebourne: Danielle de Niese shines in a stunning, if jokey, production Nicholas Kenyon 10 Jun 2024, 11:56am
Tosca, The Grange Festival, review: brings out the hard-hitting violence of Puccini’s writing Nicholas Kenyon 9 Jun 2024, 2:30pm
The Daughter of the Regiment, Grange Park Opera, review: a production of unbridled joy Claire Jackson 9 Jun 2024, 2:00pm
The Coronation of Poppea, The Grange Festival: No one in this compelling opera escapes Monteverdi’s penetrating gaze Nicholas Kenyon 8 Jun 2024, 1:38pm
Blond Eckbert, Aldeburgh Festival: The 75th edition opens with a deliciously disturbing fairy-tale Claire Jackson 8 Jun 2024, 10:32am
Bryn Terfel, Grange Park Opera: The Welsh wonder triumphs in Gianni Schicchi Nicholas Kenyon 7 Jun 2024, 12:50pm
The Barber of Seville: No fuss, no frills – just a comic masterpiece, staged with heart-warming brio Nicholas Kenyon 5 Jun 2024, 12:43pm
The Magic Flute: A new production of Mozart staged with flair and fussiness Nicholas Kenyon 3 Jun 2024, 11:49am
Andrea Chénier: Antonio Pappano bows out by making a feeble opera fly Nicholas Kenyon 31 May 2024, 10:44am
Platée: A hugely enjoyable Love Island-style production that’s exactly what this cruel story deserves Ivan Hewett 30 May 2024, 1:20pm
Carmen: Glyndebourne returns with a gritty drama of sex and death Nicholas Kenyon 17 May 2024, 12:51pm
L’Olimpiade, Linbury Theatre: Forget Paris – Vivaldi’s Olympic drama has more propulsive energy than any Games This opera’s constant energy and drive was captured to the full by the small, taut forces of the Irish Baroque Orchestra Nicholas Kenyon 14 May 2024, 12:07pm
Le Nozze di Figaro, Komische Oper, Berlin, review: purists be damned – this is sensational Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s unforgettable, dream-like adaptation won’t please everyone – but it demands to be seen Nicholas Kenyon 28 Apr 2024, 11:47am
Zarqa Al Yamama, Riyadh: a bold attempt, but Saudi Arabia’s first grand opera falls flat Nicholas Kenyon 26 Apr 2024, 11:45am
Simon Boccanegra, Bridgewater Hall, review: the Hallé deliver a thrilling evening of Verdi Nicholas Kenyon 19 Apr 2024, 11:31am
Aci by the River, London Handel Festival: this voyage up the Thames is exactly what opera needs Nicholas Kenyon 11 Apr 2024, 1:07pm
Carmen: this stimulating new production could blossom with better musical direction Nicholas Kenyon 6 Apr 2024, 11:52am
La Gioconda, Salzburg Easter Festival, review: Anna Netrebko is past her best, but Pappano thrills Rupert Christiansen 28 Mar 2024, 2:10pm
Duke Bluebeard’s Castle: cast illness hampers a restaging of Bartók that was perhaps doomed to fail Nicholas Kenyon 22 Mar 2024, 11:04am
Death in Venice: a magnificent, startlingly original staging of Britten’s enigmatic opera Nicholas Kenyon 8 Mar 2024, 11:33am
A Star Next to the Moon: a complex new opera superbly performed by a talented young cast Nicholas Kenyon 27 Feb 2024, 12:43pm