UK Opera – Seen and Heard International

Salieri’s The School for Jealousy is offered with flair and improvisatory flourish in Oxford

08/07/202507/07/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom New Chamber Opera – Salieri, La scuola de’ gelosi: Soloists, The Band of Instruments / Steven Devine (conductor). New College, Oxford, 2.7.2025. (CR)

Garsington offers a vision of hope as well as freedom in a musically urgent account of Fidelio

30/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [4] – Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, & Garsington Opera Chorus, The English Concert / Douglas Boyd (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 27.6.2025. (CR)

Robert Murray (Florestan) and Sally Matthews (Leonore) © Julian Guidera

Longborough’s Péllias et Mélisande uses audience imagination to tell the story and the music is terrific!

30/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [3] – Debussy, Pélleas et Mélisande: Soloists, Longborough Festival Orchestra / Anthony Negus (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 28.6.2025. (CP)

Julian Close (Arkel) © Matthew Williams-Ellis

Garsington’s edgy recasting of Handel’s Rodelinda as a Gothic horror fantasy

20/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [3] – Handel, Rodelinda: Soloists, The English Concert / Peter Whelan (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 19.6.2025. (CR)

Guildhall’s oddly compelling, well-performed vision of Dido and Aeneas

11/06/2025 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Purcell, Dido and Aeneas: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama / James Henshaw (conductor). Milton Court Theatre, London, 9.6.2025. (MB)

Karima El Demerdasch (Dido) © David Monteith Hodge

Bedlam reigns at Longborough’s sparkling The Barber of Seville

30/06/202510/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Longborough Festival Opera 2025 [2] – Rossini, The Barber of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Longborough Festival Opera / Elaine Kelly (conductor). Longborough, Gloucestershire, 8.6.2025. (CP)

Longborough Festival Opera’s *The Barber of Seville* © Clive Barda

Garsington’s delightful production of L’elisir d’amore captures its warm-hearted Italian spirit and comedy

09/06/2025 by Curtis Rogers

United Kingdom Garsington Opera 2025 [2] – Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore: Soloists, Garsington Opera Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra / Chloe Rooke (conductor). Garsington Opera at Wormsley, 7.6.2025. (CR)

[l-r] Oleksiy Palchykov (Nemorino), Madison Leonard (Adina) and Carles Pachon (Belcore) © Julian Guidera

Lots to love about Opera North’s Così fan tutte at Nevill Holt

08/06/2025 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Mozart, Così fan tutte: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opera North / Chris Hopkins (conductor). Nevill Holt, Leicestershire, 6.6.2025. (CP)

[l-r] Egor Zhuravskii as Ferrando, William Dazeley as Don Alfonso and Seán Boylan as Guglielmo © Tristram Kenton

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