Garsington’s The Queen of Spades will surely be one of the best things to be seen this summer

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [1] – Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades: Soloists, Garsington Opera Youth Company, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 31.5.2025. (CR)

 

Robert Hayward (Count Tomsky) and Roderick Williams (Prince Yeletsky) © Julian Guidera

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An impressive 21st-century version of Harvey Milk at San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle

United StatesUnited States Stewart Wallace, Harvey Milk Reimagined: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera Parallèle / Nicole Paiement (conductor). Blue Shield of California Theatre, San Francisco, 31.5.2025. (HS)

Michael Kelly (Harvey Milk) is shot by Christopher Oglesby (Dan White) © Corey Weaver

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Il trovatore in Vienna: Stoyanova, Beczała, Semenchuk and Salsi are great; if perhaps not Caruso’s ‘best’

AustriaAustria Verdi, Il trovatore: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Marco Armiliato (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Anna Gettel) from the Vienna State Opera, 30.5.2025. (JPr)

Luca Salsi (Count di Luna) © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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Vaudeville comes to Longborough in a UK premiere of Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Avner Dorman, Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Justin Brown (conductor).  Longborough, Gloucestershire. 27.5.2025. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s Wahnfried: the birth of the Wagner cult © Matthew Williams-Ellis

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Cultural hedonism gets explored as Tannhäuser returns to Vienna State Opera in a new production

AustriaAustria Wagner, Tannhäuser: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Vienna State Opera / Philippe Jordan (conductor). Broadcast live (directed by Dominic Kepczynski) from the Vienna State Opera, 25.5.2025. (JPr)

Clay Hilley (Tannhäuser) and Ekaterina Gubanova (Venus) © Michael Poehn/Wiener Staatsoper

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