UK Opera – Seen and Heard International

Time will tell if Oliver Mears’s new Rigoletto for the Royal Opera will reveal more

15/09/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Verdi, Rigoletto: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor). Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 13.9.2021. (CC)

Carlos Álvarez (Rigoletto) and Lisette Oropesa (Gilda) (c) Ellie Kurttz

Alastair White’s RUNE poses many searching questions

14/09/202123/08/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival [3], Alastair White – RUNE: Soloists, Dancers, Instrumentalists / Ben Smith (director). Round Chapel, Hackney, London, 18.8.2021. (MB)

Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival’s *RUNE* (c) Hannah Lovell

The Dunedin Consort in Errollyn Wallen’s original and highly effective take on Dido and Aeneas

14/09/202123/08/2021 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2021 [11] – Errollyn Wallen, Dido’s Ghost (concert staging): Dunedin Consort / John Butt (conductor). Edinburgh Academy Junior School, 21.8.2021. (SRT)

Golda Schultz (Dido/Anna) and Matthew Brook (Aeneas) © Ryan Buchanan

Nevill Holt’s Don Giovanni embraces folk beliefs in a personification of lust

14/09/202121/08/2021 by Clive Peacock

United Kingdom Nevill Holt Opera 2021 [2] – Mozart, Don Giovanni: Soloists, Chorus and Shadwell Ensemble / Finnegan Downie Dear (conductor). Nevill Holt, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 19.8.2021. (CP)

Dingle Yandell (Commendatore) (c) Lloyd Winters

Glyndebourne’s semi-staging of Wagner’s magnificent Tristan und Isolde worked beautifully

14/09/202120/08/2021 by Colin Clarke

United Kingdom Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2021 [2] – Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (semi-staged): Soloists, Glyndebourne Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Robin Ticciati (conductor). Glyndebourne Opera House, Lewes, East Sussex, 17.8.2021. (CC)

A successfully innovative approach to Hansel und Gretel by British Youth Opera

14/09/202118/08/2021 by Mark Berry

United Kingdom Humperdinck, Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel): Soloists, Southbank Sinfonia / Stephen Higgins (musical director). Holland Park Theatre, London, 12.8.2021. (MB)

Eva Gheorghiu and Rosalind Dobson in BYO’s *Hansel and Gretel* (c) Tristram Kenton

Operatic fireworks from Waterperry Opera Festival’s brilliant The Elixir of Love

14/09/202117/08/2021 by Jim Pritchard

United Kingdom Waterperry Opera Festival 2021 – Donizetti, The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Waterperry Opera Festival / Bertie Baigent (conductor). Waterperry Garden, Oxfordshire, 14.8.2021. (JPr)

Thando Mjandana (Nemorino) and Alison Langer (Adina) (c) Marc Brenner

Much to enjoy in Scottish Opera’s new Falstaff at the Edinburgh International Festival

14/09/202113/08/2021 by Simon Thompson

United Kingdom Edinburgh International Festival 2021 [5] – Verdi, Falstaff: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Scottish Opera / Stuart Stratford (conductor). Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 12.8.2021. (SRT)

Louise Winter (Mistress Quickly)and Roland Wood (Falstaff) (c) Julie Howden

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