Critically acclaimed American singer Eric Cutler should never have been an opera singer. He even brands himself, “the luckiest tenor alive!” Set to perform the lead in Fidelio this week …
David McVicar brings out the best in a young cast for this eleventh revival of his 2006 production of Mozart’s glorious Marriage of Figaro. As he has shown in many …
Angelina Jolie has seemingly put her all into her next role — and spent half a year in training. The Oscar-winning actor recently wrapped filming her starring role in Pablo …
The legend of Tristan and Isolde (also known in some versions as Iseult) dates back at least to the Middle Ages. Tristan is depicted elsewhere as one of King Arthur’s …
Never let the challenge of an English summer get in the way of belting out a good aria. That was the motto of arguably the world’s best – and most …
Ravishingly revved-up with a sexually-charged, intoxicating heroine and sublimely hummable hits from Bizet eponymous opera, this Carmen has all the ingredients for a blockbuster crowd-pleaser. Both an impassioned story of …
Since it appeared in 1790, Cosi Fan Tutte has been the most controversial of Mozart’s comic operas. For much of the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was rarely seen …
Glory, romance, misery, revenge, treachery and plotting, all to a score of beautiful music, Handel’s Giulio Cesare (that’s Julius Caesar in Italian) has everything. And David McVicar’s direction, first seen nearly 20 …
Turning a 1905 German operetta into something that will be enjoyed by a British audience today poses a problem for any director, but Glyndebourne have solved it magnificently by asking …
When French-Canadian director-designers André Barbe and Renaud Doucet first produced their version of The Magic Flute at Glyndebourne five years ago, it aroused much controversy. The plot, in any case, …