The warmth of the ENB’s dancers is evident in R:Evolution and the work of four ‘visionary creators’

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Balanchine/Graham/Forsythe/Dawson – R:Evolution: Dancers of English National Ballet, English National Ballet Philharmonic / Maria Seletskaja (conductor). Sadler’s Wells, London, 1.10.2025. (JO’D)

Emily Suzuki (The Woman) and Rentaro Nakaaki (The Creature of Fear) performing Graham’s Errand into the Maze © Photography by ASH

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Anna Netrebko impresses in Oliver Mears’s visceral, powerful and gripping new Tosca at Covent Garden

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus, Children’s Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House / Jakub Hrůša (conductor). Filmed (directed for the screen by Peter Jones) at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in September 2025 and broadcast to Cineworld Basildon, Essex, 1.10.2025. (JPr)

Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi) and Anna Netrebko (Tosca) © Marc Brenner

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A beautiful Barrie Kosky production of The Cunning Little Vixen in Barcelona

SpainSpain Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen: Soloists, Orfeó Catalá Children’s Chorus (director: Glòria Coma), Grand Teatre del Liceu Chorus (conductor: Pablo Assante) and Orchestra / Josep Pons (conductor). Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, 29.9.2025. (JMI)

Elena Tsallagova (Little Vixen) © D. Ruano

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A vividly direct performance and production of Gluck’s Iphigenia in Tauris by Blackheath Halls Opera

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gluck, Iphigenia in Tauris (Iphigénie en Tauride): Soloists, Students from Greenvale School and Charlton Park Academy, Blackheath Halls Chorus and Youth Company, Blackheath Halls Orchestra / Chris Stark (conductor). Blackheath Halls, London, 28.9.2025. (MB)

Francesca Chiejina (centre, Iphigénie)  and the cast of Iphigenia in Tauris © Julian Guidera

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Vienna State Opera’s Tosca is almost as good as new in the production’s 665th outing

AustriaAustria Puccini, Tosca: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera / Pier Giorgio Morandi (conductor). Directed for the screen by Anna Gettel and broadcast from the Vienna State Opera on 27.9.2025. (JPr)

Jonathan Tetelman (Cavaradossi) and Elena Stikhina (Floria Tosca) © Wiener Staatsoper/Michael Pöhn

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Movingly engaging – if orgiastic – Oldenburg State Theatre’s La traviata

GermanyGermany Verdi, La traviata: Soloists, Chorus, Extra Chorus and Extras of Oldenburg State Theatre, Oldenburg State Orchestra / Carlo Goldstein (conductor). Oldenburg State Theatre, 27.9.2025. (DM-D)

Laura Pisani (Violetta Valéry) and Jason Kim (Alfredo Germont) © Stephan Walzl

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