Opera & Ballet

Collected opera and ballet reviews

Haunted rooms and fractured time: Vanessa reimagined at the Williamstown Theatre Festival

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United StatesUnited States Williamstown Theatre Festival – Barber, Vanessa: Soloists, Musicians of the Heartbeat Opera / Dan Schlosberg (conductor). Williamstown Theatre Festival Annex, North Adams, 20.7.2025. (ES-S)

Mary Phillips (Baroness), Ori Marcu (Erika) and Roy Hage (Anatol) © Maria Branova

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Bampton Classical Opera’s spirited La locandíera is a remarkable tribute to the bicentenary of Salieri’s death

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Antonio Salieri, La locandíera (The Landlady): Soloists, Orchestra of Bampton Classical Opera / Andrew Griffiths (conductor). The Deanery Garden, Bampton, Oxfordshire, 18.7.2025. (CP)

Osian Wyn Bowen (The Baron) and Rosalind Dobson (Lena) in Bampton Classical Opera’s The Landlady © Anthony Hall

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In Eugene Onegin Wild Arts’s greatest strength is that it acts as a collective not a collection of starry individuals

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin (arr. Orlando Jopling, sung in English translation by Siofra Dromgoole): Soloists, The Wild Arts Ensemble / Otis Lineham (conductor). (conductor). Thaxted Parish Church, Essex, 12.7.2025. (CC)

Xavier Hetherington (Lensky) and Timothy Nelson (Onegin) © Allan Titmuss

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Much to admire and enjoy in Don Giovanni at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

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FranceFrance Festival d’Aix-en-Provence [2] – Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle (conductor). Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 8.7.2025. (MB)

Don Giovanni at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2025 © Monika Rittershaus

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