It can be interesting to re-visit a production that you’ve seen before, let alone one you’ve actually put pen to paper about. Phyllida Lloyd’s production of Macbeth was last seen in 2006 and my review ...

One of the biggest challenges for young conductors is very easy to explain. They need to find a way to get themselves in front of an actual orchestra. Because, in college, they will spend a lot of ...

The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival opens next week with an abundance of classical music events over 8 days and nights. With much more on offer than the centrepiece production, the festival has ...

West Green House Opera was founded in 2000, and this year celebrates its silver anniversary. Director and designer Richard Studer and conductor Jonathan Lyness have been with the company since day one ...

Choosing the right opener for a theatrical season is always a fraught gamble. An opening demands ambition and momentum, all while securing trust in the audience that what follows will reward them.

Last week the actor and director Alan Stanford was quoted on these pages as saying: “To me a classic play is something to mess with.” It’s an attitude that Opera Ireland’s artistic director Dieter ...

Local opera lovers will get the chance to see two vastly different operas this November -- Richard Wagner’s rarely staged “Lohengrin” and Giuseppe Verdi’s musical interpretation of one of ...

Teatro Nuovo, which trains musicians in bel canto style, returns with productions of a rare “Macbeth” and “La Sonnambula.” By Arya Roshanian Reporting from Montclair, N.J. A lot of opera houses, big ...