On the opening night of director Richard Jones's excellent production of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, England's captain, ...
Demonstrators outside the Royal Opera House protested the Russian soprano’s return to the London stage in a new production of “Tosca.” By Alex Marshall The London institution is creating “RBO/Shift,” ...
Bellini’s tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones’s detailed new production ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by During a break at the Royal Opera House, Aigul Akhmetshina discussed her action-packed career, “Carmen” and her mission to spread her love of opera.
This February, The Royal Opera’s Tosca returns to Covent Garden. Jonathan Kent’s staging receives its 14th revival since its premiere in 2006 and this year will showcase debut performances from ...
While the country house opera season is in full swing, the Royal Opera has mounted a major new production of Bellini’s final opera, I puritani, for the first time in 35 years. Richard Jones’s ...
Our critic selects the hottest tickets, from the Royal Opera’s La fille du régiment to Grange Park’s glittering Rheingold ...
“Even Plato banished poets from his Republic,” wrote the merciless French revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre’s original French sprawls in huge letters across the show curtain of ...
London’s Royal Opera House is changing its name and hunting for new commercial partners as it works to fill a multimillion pound funding gap. From now on, the institution will be known as the Royal ...
Amid cuts to arts funding, the Royal Opera House’s pioneering Jette Parker scheme continues to scour the globe for new talent ...
A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the Royal Opera House in London as cast members were taking their bows following the season’s final performance of “Il ...
‘Wagner never points a finger and says that’s a baddie, that’s a goodie. He lets them all put their point of vie​w and the ...